Rudolf Keller (16 June 1917 – 28 November 1993) was a German
chess
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master.
Born in Dresden, he was the brother of
Edith Keller-Herrmann
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. In 1935–1938, he won Dresden and Saxony championships. He took 4th at Berlin 1938, shared 1st with
Ludwig Rellstab
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and Paul Michel at Bad Warmbrunn 1939, played in a match Germany vs. Hungary in Karlsbad in April 1939, tied for 6–7th at
Vienna
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Erich Eliskases
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won), tied for 6–9th at Bad Oeynhausen 1940 (the 7th GER-ch,
Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger (5 June 1902, in Munich – 25 January 1975, in Düsseldorf) was a German chess player and International Master (IM).
A cigar smoker, Kieninger was nicknamed "Eiserner Schorsch" (roughly translated as "Iron Georgie") because of h ...
won), took 2nd, behind
Klaus Junge
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, at Dresden 1942, tied for 9–10th at Choceň 1942 (
Miroslav Katětov
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won), and tied for 4–5th at Warsaw/Lublin/Kraków 1942 (the 3rd
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World War II
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, he won the Saxony championships in 1949, and played in a GDR vs. CSR match in 1957. He was awarded the