General Government chess championships (''Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements'') were
Nazi
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tournaments held during
World War II
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in
occupied
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central
Poland
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.
Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
Frank was an early member of the German Workers' Party ...
, the
Governor-General of General Government, was the patron of those tournaments because he was an avid chess player.
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The competition began when he organized a chess congress in Krakow on 3 November 1940. Six months later Frank announced the establishment of a chess school under Chess grandmasters, Yefim Bogolyubov and Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...
.
Historical context
A number of Polish chess players was arrested in January 1940. Jewish players were killed by Germans, e.g. Dawid Przepiórka
Dawid Przepiórka (22 December 1880 – presumed April 1940) was a prominent Polish chess player of the early twentieth century.
Biography
Dawid Przepiórka was born 22 December 1880 in Warsaw, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), to a ...
. Ethnic Poles didn't participate in the tournaments.
Participants
*Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...
Russia/France
*Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow ( or ), also known as Ewfim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow, ( (); also Romanized ''Bogoljubov'', ''Bogolyubov''; uk, Юхим Дмитрович Боголюбов, Yukhym Dmytrovych Boholiubov; April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952) ...
Ukraine/Germany
*Paul Felix Schmidt
Paul Felix Schmidt ( – 11 August 1984) was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist.
Biography
In June 1935, Schmidt won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres (+3 –3 =1) at Pärnu. In 1 ...
Estonia/Germany
*Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 – 17 April 1945) was one of the youngest Chilean-German chess masters. In several tournaments during the 1940s he held his own among the world's leading players. An officer in the Wehrmacht, he died during the Batt ...
Chile/Germany
*Karl Gilg
Karl Gilg (20 January 1901, in Mankovice (Mankendorf), Austrian Silesia – 4 December 1981, in Kolbermoor, Bavaria) was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.
Biography
Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads. ...
Czechoslovakia/Germany
*Josef Lokvenc
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In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna (19th Trebitsch-Tu ...
Austria/Germany
* Hans Müller Austria/Germany
* Wolfgang Weil Austria/Germany
* Paul Mross Poland/Germany
*Teodor Regedziński Teodor (Theodor, Theodore) Regedziński (Regedzinski, Reger) (28 April 1894 – 2 August 1954) was a Polish chess master of German origin.
Biography
Born Poland (near Łódź), Regedziński was of German origin as his father, named Reger. He h ...
Poland/Germany
*Leon Tuhan-Baranowski
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski (22 June 1907, St Petersburg – 27 April 1954, Frankfurt) was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer.
Born in Saint Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots ( Tartar and Belarusian descent). After ...
Poland/Germany
*Fedir Bohatyrchuk
Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk (also ''Bogatirchuk'', ''Bohatirchuk'', ''Bogatyrtschuk'') ( uk, Федір Парфенович Богатирчук; , ''Fyodor Parfenyevich Bogatyrchuk''; 27 November 1892 – 4 September 1984) was a Ukrainian-Ca ...
Ukraine/Soviet Union
and other German players /Germany.
Regedziński played as ''Theodore Reger'', and Tuhan-Baranowski as ''Lisse''.
Krakow / Krynica /
Warsaw
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1940
The first General Government Championship was held in Krakow/Krynica/Warsaw in 3–17 November 1940.
:
Krakow /
Warsaw
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1941
The second General Government Championship was held in Krakow/Warsaw in 5–19 October 1941.
:
Warsaw
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/ Lublin / Krakow 1942
The third General Government Championship was held in Warsaw/Lublin/Krakow in 11–24 October 1942.
:
Krynica 1943
The fourth General Government Championship was held in Krynica in 25 November–5 December 1943.
:
Radom
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1944
The fifth General Government Championship was held in Radom in February 1944.1944
:
References
See also
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Football in occupied Poland (1939–45)
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