Juliane Hund (née Meyer, 23 September 1928 – 9 December 1999) was a German chess player.

Life

Juliane Meyer was born on 23 September 1928 in

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

. She spent her childhood in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

and before the end of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

moved to Volkenroda in Thuringia to her grandmother. In 1946, she graduated from high school in

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a city in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen. Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and bec ...

, Thuringia and then studied law in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...

and

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

. Meyer founded a student chess club at the University of Frankfurt, where she met her husband

Gerhard Hund Gerhard Friedrich Hund (born February 4, 1932 in Leipzig) is a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist. Biography He is the oldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund (1896–1997). He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University ...

in 1955. They got married in 1957 and had four children. Her four daughters Susanne van Kempen (née Hund, * 1958),

Barbara Hund Barbara Hund (born 10 October 1959 in Darmstadt) is a German-born Swiss chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the daughter of Juliane and Gerhard Hund and the granddaughter of Friedrich Hund and Ingeborg Seyns ...

(Woman Grandmaster 1982, * 1959),

Isabel Hund Isabel Hund (born 14 June 1962) is a German chess Chess Woman FIDE Master (WFM, 1990) who two-times won West Germany Women's Chess Championship (1980, 1989). Also she won Belgian Women's Chess Championship (1985). Private and work Isabel H ...

(FIDE-Master, * 1962) and Dorothee Lampe (née Hund, * 1966) also became chess players. In 1961, the Hund family moved from Darmstadt to Leverkusen-Wiesdorf, where they lived until 1967 when they moved to

Bergisch Neukirchen Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf. With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is on ...

Career

In September 1959, Hund played at the German women's championship in

Dahn Dahn is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Palatinate Forest, approximately 15 km southeast of Pirmasens, and 25 km west of Landau. It is part of the ''Verbandsgemeind ...

where she took the second place. The same year she started playing correspondence chess. In 1975, Hund became a

Lady International Correspondence Chess Master International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) was founded on 26 March 1951 as a new appearance of the International Correspondence Chess Association (ICCA), which was founded in 1945, as successor of the Internationaler Fernschachbund (IF ...

(LIM). In 1978, she won silver medal at the first women's

Correspondence chess Olympiad The Correspondence Chess Olympiad is a correspondence chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete. International Correspondence Chess Federation organises the tournament. Correspondence Chess Olympiads Ladies Correspondence C ...

and in 1980 she became an

International Correspondence Chess Master International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) was founded on 26 March 1951 as a new appearance of the International Correspondence Chess Association (ICCA), which was founded in 1945, as successor of the Internationaler Fernschachbund (I ...

(IM). Hund participated in international chess tournaments in France, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Iceland and Finland. In 1989, Hund became the first German senior champion in chess and several times played at the Senior World Championships until 1997. ICCF 1998 Ladies Europe Champion 1

In 1995, Hund won the first place at European Ladies Championship. Having won the first European Fernschach Women's Championship, which lasted over 11 years, Hund was awarded the title of the “1st European Champion” at the ICCF Congress (World Chess Federation) in Riga in 1998. In 1999, Hund received the Golden Badge of Honor from the German Fernschachbund (BdF). Juliane Hund died on 9 December 1999 in

Leverkusen Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf. With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is on ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hund, Juliane 1999 deaths 1928 births German female chess players 20th-century chess players