Dietrich Duhm (1880 in

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 ...

– 22 July 1954 in

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) was a German–Swiss

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master. Born in

, Germany, he was the 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

Andreas Duhm Andreas Duhm (22 August 1883, Göttingen – 23 November 1975, Heidelberg) was a German–Swiss chess master. Born in Göttingen, Germany, he was the younger brother of Hans Duhm and Dietrich Duhm. His father, Bernhard Duhm, was a professor for ...

. 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. Dietrich studied theology too. He twice won

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at Schaffhausen 1907 (jointly with

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and Kunz) and at Montreux 1914 (jointly with

Moriz Henneberger Moriz Henneberger (16 October 1878, Bümpliz – 7 April 1959, Basel) was a Swiss chess master and chess composer A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genr ...

). He tied for 3rd-5th, behind Andreas Duhm and

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 ...

, at Heidelberg 1913, and won at Baden-Baden 1921 (the 3rd ''Badischen Kongress'', ''quadrangular''). Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01

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