Andreas Duhm (22 August 1883,

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

– 23 November 1975,

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) was a German–Swiss

chess master A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted for life. The international chess governing body FIDE grants several titles, the most pres ...

. Born in

, Germany, he was the younger brother of

Hans Duhm Hans Duhm (12 August 1878, Göttingen – 4 January 1946) was a German–Swiss chess master. Born in Göttingen, Germany, he was the elder brother of Dietrich Duhm and Andreas Duhm. His father, Bernhard Duhm, was a professor for Protestant theo ...

and Dietrich Duhm. His father,

Bernhard Duhm Bernhard Lauardus Duhm (October 10, 1847 – November 1, 1928) was a German Lutheran theologian, born in Bingum, today part of Leer, East Frisia. He was a member of the history of religions school. Early life and education Duhm studied theolo ...

, was a professor for Protestant theology (

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) in Göttingen and Basel, Switzerland. Andreas studied theology too. He won three

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s at Bern 1900, St. Gallen 1901 (jointly with Pestalozzi,

, and Meyer), and at Basel 1913. He also won at Karlsruhe 1911, Kitzingen 1913 (''triangular''), and Heidelberg 1913 (followed by

Solomon Rosenthal Solomon (Shlomo) Konradovich Rosenthal (10 August 1890, in Vilnius, Lithuania – 18 November 1955, in Minsk, Belarusian SSR) was a Lithuanian–Belarusian chess master. In the beginning of his career, before World War I, he tied for 6-7th in the ...

, Dietrich Duhm, etc.), and tied for 4-5th with

Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky Alexander Fyodorovich Ilyin (russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ильи́н-Жене́вский; November 28, 1894 – September 3, 1941), known with the party name Zhenevsky, "the Genevan" because he joined the Bolshevik group of ...

at Montreux 1914 (SUI-ch, D. Duhm and Moriz Henneberger won), and took 4th at Baden-Baden 1921 (the 3rd ''Badischen Kongress'', ''quadrangular'', D. Duhm won). Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01

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