Otto Zander

23 April 1933. This date was in the contemporary accounts as the founding date of the GSB. Federal conductor was Otto Zander , the CEO was Ehrhardt Post ordered. End of May 1933, Joseph Goebbels, the honorary chairman of the GSB...

The German Chess Federation was formally legally continued until 1934. 4....

The GSB had set out in its Constitution, "only German Aryan descent" to include as members ( Aryan paragraph ). Already in the spring of 1933 had all Jewish chess officials resign from their positions, led by the President of the German Chess Federation, Walter Robinow . Yet in May 1933, wrote Heinrich Ranneforth in the German chess magazine : "Those who feel German and concerns and thereby the German people feel internally connected, why should not the as fellow can apply? "But as early as July 1933, Jews were no longer members of be chess clubs within the GSB. For example, had the former world chess champion Emanuel Lasker from the Berlin Chess Club , whose honor he was a member, are excluded. 8 During this time, some purely Jewish chess clubs were founded, which until 1938 had a partial inventory. 1935 and 1937 found even "Jewish Championships" held by Sammi Fajarowicz were recovered...

Wikipedia article: Otto Zander

From 1933 to 1938 Zander was the Federal Chairman of the Großdeutscher Schachbund (Greater German Chess Federation) At the inaugural meeting of the GSB in Bad Pyrmont on July 9, 1933 Zander gave a speech in which he announced the expulsion of all Jewish players from organized play operation: "Jews we can to our work do not need, they have to disappear from the clubs, because they were in Germany, the inventor and promoter of the class struggle and now rushing the other peoples with their lying propaganda against our country. " 1

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