Werner Schlachetka

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Werner Schlachetka (born October 29, 1943 in Bendsburg ; † March 12, 2016 in Jena ) was a German book author and chess player .

Life

Schlachetka graduated from high school in Eisenberg, Thuringia, in 1962 and then learned to be a top lathe operator at the Eisenberg fittings factory. He obtained his diploma at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1969. From 1969 to June 1989 he worked as a vocational school teacher at the company school of VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, mainly in the subjects of electronics, BMSR technology and IT . Shortly before the German reunification in 1989/90 he was removed from school service for political reasons. He was offered a position as a programmer at the Carl Zeiss research center in Jena , where he worked until 1991. In the course of the entire reconstruction of the combine, almost all ongoing projects were finally stopped and the dismissal threatened. In this situation Schlachetka applied for an advertised position as the founding representative of a qualification company in the course of the wave of spin-offs. He got this job and founded a non-profit educational company with thirty employees in 1991 and became its first managing director. This still exists today as the Ernst Abbe Academy Jena . After his fixed-term employment contract expired in 1992, he left this company and went back to school in the new Free State of Thuringia. Until his retirement in 2008 he worked at the Karl-Volkmar-Stoy-Schule as a specialist teacher for data processing, programming and system development and at the same time worked as a specialist conference leader.

Schlachetka was awarded the Helmholtz Association Teacher's Prize in Munich in 2003 for his particular commitment to vocational training, especially for his students having successfully participated in the national computer science competition for many years, often winning first prizes .

He had been married to his wife Elvira since 1970 and left behind two daughters, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Correspondence chess

Schlachetka was GDR champion in the 11th GDR correspondence chess championship in 1984 after having become runner-up two years earlier. Linked to this was the qualification for the ½ final of the World Correspondence Chess Championship . In this tournament he qualified for the ¾ final of the World Correspondence Chess Championship. However, he did not succeed in making it into the final.

With the GDR national team Schlachetka qualified for the final round of the III. European team championship. When this was started, the GDR no longer existed. Later he was appointed to the first all-German correspondence chess team for the fourth European championship final round together with Knut Herschel from Leipzig . With 8½ points from 11 games, he made a significant contribution to the overall victory of the German team. With this European title, he also ended his active career. He was of the opinion that the increasingly powerful computer chess programs, which were allowed as aids, gradually destroy the appeal of classic correspondence chess with independent analysis work.

Schlachetka was awarded the title of International Correspondence Chess Master by the ICCF for his tournament achievements .

successes

  • 1982: GDR vice chess champion
  • 1984: GDR correspondence chess master
  • 1999: European correspondence chess champion in the team

Awards

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Ostthüringer Zeitung from March 19, 2016
  2. ^ ICCF profile
personal data
SURNAME Schlachetka, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2016
Place of death Jena