Jun-12-25
 | | rhmberger: Reitzer, Ad., in New York, formerly in Budapest; librarian of the City Chess Club; club player; problem composer.
(J. Berger's Schach-Jahrbuch (1899), p. 204. https://books.google.com/books?id=E...). See also: American chess magazine 1 (1897-98), p. 57. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt... .
Wins the City Chess Club handicap tournament 1896 (The Tribune Almanac 1896, p. 200. https://books.google.com/books?id=N... )
Published Problems: https://www.yacpdb.org/#q/Entity('a...
Entry in the WFCC database https://database.wfcc.ch/index.php?... with a <?>:
Adolf Reitzer, born 1841 in Újpalánka / Plankenburg / Bačka Palanka, then Hungary, now Serbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C4... died 1927-04-23 Brooklyn; linking to https://www.geni.com/people/Adolf-R... .
We received interesting news of a death from New York. On April 23, Adolf Reitzer died there at the age of 87. Many people in Szeged still remember him: he was a bank director and an excellent pianist. ... After the collapse of his bank, he emigrated in 1890 and opened a music school in New York, which is still thriving today under the leadership of his daughter. He maintained lively correspondence with Szeged and his relatives there throughout his life. Délmagyarország, 1927-05-11, p. 5. https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/v... |
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Jun-12-25
| | rhmberger: Another view:
An old criminal case. Szegedin, April 18. (Original telegram.) More than eight years ago, the local “Szegediner Allgem. Sparkasse” went bankrupt, whose director, Adolf Reitzer, had persuaded the institute's accountant, Bernhard Stern, to prepare false balance sheets. On the basis of these false balance sheets, high dividends were then paid out, which—since the savings bank was actually operating at a loss—could only be to the detriment of the depositors. One day, the deceptive structure, which had been built with great sophistication, collapsed, and hundreds of small civil servant families, craftsmen, and even servants and domestic staff suddenly became beggars. Adolf Reitzer then left Szegedin, leaving his family in dire straits, and went to America, from where he has not yet returned. The judicial investigation has since proceeded at a snail's pace, until finally today the royal court of justice issued the indictment and brought the former director Adolf Reitzer and the accountant Bernhard Stern to trial.
Pester Lloyd, 19. April 1896, p. 6. https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/... |
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Jun-12-25
| | rhmberger: The chess link:
"In the general tornament, Adolph [sic] Reitzer of the City Chess Club and N. Souveine [sic] of the Brooklyn Chess Club drew for first and second prize."
The New York Times, February 23, 1893
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/ti... |
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