Carlos Otto Junge (1887, Concepción,

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

– 1978,

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) was a

an–

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master. He was Chilean Champion in 1922. The Junge family moved from Chile to Germany in 1930. They lived in

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, and played (father and son) in ''Hamburger Schachklub'' in 1930s. Carlos Otto Junge became a member of NSDAP (German

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) in 1932. He was the father of

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 ...

.Schachgeschichte und Geschichten
/ref> Dr Otto Junge was a chairman of ''Allgemeiner Turn- und Sportverein Cuxhaven'' in 1930-39, 1944–45, 1947-53.

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1887 births 1978 deaths Chilean chess players German chess players Chilean emigrants to Germany Chilean people of German descent People from Concepción, Chile {{Chile-chess-bio-stub