Wolfgang Weil (November 23, 1912, Klosterneuburg – 1944/45, Croatia) was an Austrian chess master. Dr. Weil played for Austria at eighths board (+10 –2 =5) in

3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation (''Grossdeutscher Schachbund'') as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events. Many Jewish chess players took part in the event. Si ...

at Munich 1936, and won individual gold medal. He took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, at Vienna 1937 (''Quadrangular''), tied for 6–7th at Vienna 1937/38 (the 20th

Trebitsch Memorial Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament was a chess competition organized by the family of Austrian silk manufacturer Leopold Trebitsch. Twenty tournaments were played in Vienna between 1907 and 1938.Lajos Steiner Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad ( Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master. Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia,(née Schwarz) ...

won), took 9th at Bad Elster 1938 ( Efim Bogoljubow won), tied for 15–16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 (the 5th German Championship, Erich Eliskases won), was a winner at Vienna (''Schachklub Hietzing'') 1939, took 3rd at Vienna 1939 (Eliskases won), and tied for 8–10th at Warsaw / Lublin / Kraków 1942 (the 3rd GG-ch, Alexander Alekhine won). He died in combat in Croatia.Chess in 1945
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* 1912 births 1940s deaths Year of birth uncertain Austrian chess players Austrian military personnel killed in World War II People from Klosterneuburg 20th-century chess players {{Austria-chess-bio-stub