I then checked the ChessBase Player Encyclopaedia and it has him down as English - and having died on 26.07.1953.

On this site, as of today, Holger Lieske is shown as having played three games in Nottingham in 1946.

I then checked my emails and found one from Holger Lieske to me in 2019, showing that he is a ChessBase employee.

All very confusing, eh? Well, not really. In fact, the guy who played at Nottingham in 1946 was called Herbert Bruno Paul Lieske and he was born on 24.07.1915 in Berlin and died in 1996 in Sutton, England. He was a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939, was perhaps interned for a while, married a British woman in 1942 and taught art at a grammar school.

https://players.chessbase.com/en/pl...

Some modern games, but no bio info.

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Since I don't have <CB Mega Database> I had to search online for info about the <Player Encyclopaedia>...

I found this info:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/onlin...

They don't mention bio info too much, instead offering this:

<If you are familiar with the Player Encyclopedia that comes with Mega Database, you might be expecting something similar: a large archive whose main visible perk is the addition of player images to the games.>

The main selling point is the player image!?!

Hmm... of course, they go on to promote some added features of the online version (e.g. player rating chart, plus opening stats, etc). Again, nary a mention about biographical info.

"P.C.C. PERSONALITIES (No. 13)

H. P. LIESKE

To become Champion of the Postal Chess Club is no mean feat. To score eleven wins out of twelve games in doing so, is truly remarkable. Who is this new star in British postal chess ?

Mr. Lieske was born in 1915, learnt chess at 8 and has never really had the time to spare for it since! Studied at Berlin University and the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts; missed the championship of the first chess club he joined by half-a-point—twice!

Nearly became a professional footballer; at school held records in running, high and long jump and revelled in boxing, swimming and rowing ; believes it was the physical fitness developed by sport which enabled him to survive the constant tension of six years’ underground work in Nazi Germany.

Mr. Lieske wishes he were good enough to give simultaneous displays, for “I should enjoy it as a more intense form of mental exercise and as a concentrated, purified form of chess, in that it eliminates the expense, often wasteful, of energy between my move and my opponent’s reply: it would be my move all the time.”

In postal chess, says Mr. Lieske, he forgets all about the game as soon as he has decided on his move—in fact he has to forget it, for there are always a thousand and one jobs awaiting his immediate attention.

He is a painter and lectures on commercial art at the Regional College of Art in Bradford. Married; three little boys ("Who threw my king out of the window?”)