Leon Tuhan-Baranowski (22 June 1907,

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– 27 April 1954, Frankfurt) was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer. Born in Saint Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots (

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and

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descent). After the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to

Stolpce Stowbtsy ( be, Стоўбцы, ''Stoŭbcy'', ) or Stolbtsy ( rus, Столбцы, , stɐlˈptsɨ; pl, Stołpce; yi, סטויבץ ''Steibtz'', lt, Stolpcai) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus, the administrative center of the Stowbtsy District. I ...

(Stowbtsy) near Novogrodek, and then to Warsaw. In 1925, he took 10th in Warsaw ( Stanisław Kohn won). In 1925–26, he tied for 7–8th in Warsaw (the 1st Polish Chess Championship, elimination). The event was won by

Abram Blass Moshe Aba Blass (born 1896, Łomża, Poland - 1971, Tel-Aviv, Israel) was a Polish-Israeli chess master. Born in Łomża (then Russian Empire), he moved to the US, staying from 1911 to 1924. After returning to Poland, he lived in Warsaw. In 1924/2 ...

and

Paulin Frydman Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (26 May 1905 in Warsaw, Poland – 2 February 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Polish chess master. Career In 1922, Paulin Frydman took 2nd place, behind Kazimierz Makarczyk in Warsaw. In 1923, he tied for 2nd-4 ...

. In 1930s, his activity concentrated in a few areas (correspondence chess, various local and team tournaments). Among others he participated in the 2nd Polish Team Chess Championship at

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1934. Tuhan-Baranowski was also a composer and author of chess books. His debut took place in 1924 when he published on columns of ''Deutsche Schachzeitung''. He co-operated with ''L’Echiquier'', ''

Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten Bernhard Kagan (15 August 1866 – 27 November 1932, Berlin) was a German chess player, writer, publisher, editor, and organizer. Biography Born in Poland, Kagan lived in Berlin, where he played in local tournaments. He took 7th in 1898, tied fo ...

'', ''Die Schwalbe'', ''Dzień Polski'', ''Strzelec'', ''Czas'', etc. During World War II, Tuhan-Baranowski had declared Belarusian nationality and became an interpreter for the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (1941–1942). Then, in 1943–1944, he lived in

General Government The General Government (german: Generalgouvernement, pl, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, uk, Генеральна губернія), also referred to as the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (german: Generalgouvernement für die be ...

(occupied central Poland). He played as Lisse in several chess tournaments in GG. In December 1943, he tied for 5–6th in Krynica (the 4th GG-ch, Josef Lokvenc won). In February 1944, he took 4th, behind Efim Bogoljubow, Fedor Bogatyrchuk, and

Hans Roepstorff Hans Roepstorff (1910–1945) was a German chess master. ''Roepstorff took 15th at Kraków 1938 (Jaroslav Šajtar won)'', shared first with Paul Mross but lost to him a play-off at Berlin 1938, tied for 8–10th at Warsaw/Lublin/Kraków 1942 (the ...

, in Radom. In August 1944, he met a German chess player August Mund in Łódź. At the end of the war, he escaped to West Germany ( US Zone) where he published as Wormatius.Heft 218, April 2006 – Archiv Aktuelles > Personalia
/ref> He won a prize for three-move theme (co-author A. Goldstein) in ''Revista Romana de Sah'' in 1948. He died in a car accident in Frankfurt am Main.

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