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🏆 German Championship (1939)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Paul Michel, Alfred Brinckmann, Max Eisinger Jr, Hans Mueller, Kurt Richter, Karl Gilg, Herbert Heinicke, Georg Kieninger, Erich Eliskases, Ludwig Rellstab, Wilfried Lange, Wilhelm Ernst, Josef Lokvenc, Anton Kohler, Ludwig Engels, Rudolf Keller

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German Championship (1939)

The 6th championship of Nazi Germany was a 16-player round robin tournament held at the Kurhaus in Bad Oeynhausen, a town near Bielefeld and Hannover, with daily rounds from 9-23 July 1939. The final list of participants was released by the Grossdeutsche Schachbund on 6 (or 5) July, right after Bad Harzburg (1939) (in which Lange qualified): Eliskases of Innsbruck (the defending champion), Kieninger (Köln), Brinckmann (Kiel), Eisinger (Karlsruhe), Engels (Düsseldorf), Ernst (Gelsenkirchen), Gilg (Troppau (Opava)), Heinicke (Hamburg), Keller (Dresden), Kohler (München), Dr. Lange (Essen), Lokvenc and Müller (Wien), and Michel, Rellstab and Richter (Berlin). Time control: two hours for the first 36 moves, and then one more hour for every 18 moves. Games were set to play from 9 am to 1 pm and 4-8 pm.

Erich Eliskases won again, with 11/15.

               1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6  Pts
 1 Eliskases   * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½  11
 2 Lokvenc     ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1   9
 3 Gilg        0 0 * 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1   8½
 4 Kohler      ½ ½ 0 * 0 ½ 0 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½   8
   Rellstab    0 ½ 0 1 * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 ½   8
 6 Engels      ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0   7½
   Keller      0 1 0 1 ½ ½ * 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½   7½
   Heinicke    0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1   7½
   Richter     0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 ½ * 1 1 1 0 1 ½ 1   7½
10 Brinckmann  1 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 * 0 1 1 0 1 0   7
   Mueller     ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 * 0 1 0 0 1   7
   Kieninger   ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 * ½ 1 1 ½   7
   Eisinger    0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1   7
14 Michel      0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 * ½ ½   6½
15 Lange       0 ½ 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ * 1   6
16 Ernst       ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 *   5
On 29 July 1939, Eliskases, Engels and Michel (together with Albert Becker and Enrique (Heinrich) Reinhardt) left Antwerpen on board Piriapolis to represent Germany in the Buenos Aires Olympiad (1939). Because of World War II, they all remained in South America.

Sources

Wikipedia article: German Chess Championship
TeleSchach: https://www.teleschach.de/historie/...
Roger Paige's chess site #2010 (https://web.archive.org/web/2014051...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 5 July 1939, p. 8 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 8 July 1939, p. 7 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 10 July 1939, p. 8 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 16 July 1939, p. 10 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 20 July 1939, p. 8 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 23 July 1939, p. 10 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, 24 July 1939, p. 7 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Hamburger Anzeiger, 6 July 1939, p. 9 (https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/92...)
Völkischer Beobachter, 9 July 1939, p. 28 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Illustrierte Kronen Zeitung, 10 July 1939, p. 11 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Innsbrucker Nachrichten, 5 August 1939, p. 21 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Sonntagsbeilage), 30 July 1939, p. 13 (http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a...)
Kurt Richter. A Chess Biography with 499 Games, by Alan McGowan. McFarland, Jefferson 2018. 368 pp.

Tournament book

Bad Oeynhausen 1939. Sammlung aller Partien, ed. by Milciades Angel Lachaga. Buenos Aires 1972. 64 pp.

Original collections: Game Collection: 6th German Championship - Bad Oeynhausen 1939 by User: Pawn and Two (who collected the games) and Game Collection: German Championship 1939 by User: Tabanus. Thanks to User: chesshistoryinterest for helpful comments.

 page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. G Kieninger vs Eliskases  ½-½361939German ChampionshipD57 Queen's Gambit Declined, Lasker Defense
2. Gilg vs A Brinckmann  1-0641939German ChampionshipD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. W Lange vs R Keller  ½-½211939German ChampionshipD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. J Lokvenc vs H Heinicke ½-½561939German ChampionshipA14 English
5. P Michel vs A Kohler  ½-½241939German ChampionshipC66 Ruy Lopez
6. H Mueller vs W Ernst  1-0411939German ChampionshipE16 Queen's Indian
7. M Eisinger vs K Richter  1-0371939German ChampionshipB01 Scandinavian
8. L Engels vs L Rellstab  0-1391939German ChampionshipA07 King's Indian Attack
9. Eliskases vs W Lange 1-0291939German ChampionshipE62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
10. K Richter vs L Rellstab  0-1421939German ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
11. W Ernst vs Gilg  0-1611939German ChampionshipB73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
12. A Brinckmann vs J Lokvenc 0-1381939German ChampionshipB07 Pirc
13. R Keller vs P Michel  ½-½361939German ChampionshipC67 Ruy Lopez
14. H Mueller vs L Engels  ½-½391939German ChampionshipA90 Dutch
15. H Heinicke vs G Kieninger  1-0421939German ChampionshipD61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
16. A Kohler vs M Eisinger  1-0481939German ChampionshipB73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
17. P Michel vs Eliskases 0-1531939German ChampionshipB10 Caro-Kann
18. L Engels vs K Richter 1-0321939German ChampionshipD09 Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 5.g3
19. Gilg vs H Mueller  0-1351939German ChampionshipE17 Queen's Indian
20. G Kieninger vs A Brinckmann  0-1341939German ChampionshipD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
21. W Lange vs H Heinicke  ½-½261939German ChampionshipD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
22. M Eisinger vs R Keller  ½-½361939German ChampionshipB84 Sicilian, Scheveningen
23. J Lokvenc vs W Ernst  1-0821939German ChampionshipA06 Reti Opening
24. L Rellstab vs A Kohler 1-0601939German ChampionshipC66 Ruy Lopez
25. Eliskases vs M Eisinger 1-0291939German ChampionshipA13 English
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Kibitzer's Corner
May-15-21
Premium Chessgames Member		  GrahamClayton: Eliskases and Gilg were eligible to compete due to the German occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.

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