Siegfried Reginald Wolf

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Siegfried Reginald Wolf (born December 19, 1867 in Prague , † January 5, 1951 in Haifa ) was an Austrian chess player .

biography

Wolf came from a Jewish family in Prague. At the end of the 1880s he came to Vienna , where he played his entire chess career. Wolf remained an amateur. Professionally he was successful and rose to become a wealthy manufacturer.

In 1891 Wolf became a member of the New Vienna Chess Club , which merged with the Vienna Chess Society to form the Vienna Chess Club in 1897 . Since 1893 at the latest he was one of the Viennese masters. His style of play is described as balanced, Wolf was neither a typical position nor a combination player . In various championship tournaments, he mostly took middle places. Since 1910, Wolf was active in the newly founded Landstraßer Schachbund , which was one of the best-playing Viennese chess clubs until the 1920s. From 1913 to 1918 he carried out numerous training competitions with the young Ernst Grünfeld . During this time, Wolf is referred to as Grünfeld's mentor, who gradually surpassed him in terms of playing strength during the First World War .

In 1925 Siegfried R. Wolf shared first place with Albert Becker at the (unofficial) Austrian chess championship . At an advanced age, Wolf took part in the Chess Olympiads between 1927 , 1928 and 1930 as a member of the Austrian team . He scored a total of 17 points from 32 games (+9 = 16 −7). A little later his tournament career ended.

After the annexation of Austria , he emigrated to Palestine in 1938 . In Haifa , Wolf was chairman of the chess club until the end.

His son Alfred Emil Wolf (1900–1923) was also a chess player. The young man had a fatal accident in the Swiss mountains.

President of the Chess Federation

Siegfried R. Wolf's organizational skills were generally recognized, so that in 1926 he was elected President of the Austrian Chess Federation . During his term of office, which lasted until 1929, an organizational and financial reorganization took place, to which the principle - as far as the equality of the regional chess associations vis-à-vis Vienna is concerned - was maintained in the post-war period.

Wolf was drawn into anti-Semitic disputes in 1935 about the introduction of the Aryan paragraph . There was an internal split in the Austrian Chess Federation, which was then incorporated into the Greater German Chess Federation in 1938 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Reginald Wolf's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Siegfried Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chess master
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1951
Place of death Haifa