Max Blümich

Reinhold Max Blümich (* November 3, 1886, † February 23, 1942 in Falkenberg ) was a German chess master and author.

Chess players

Blümich 1923 won the main tournament of the German Chess Federation in Frankfurt am Main in front of master players like Kurt Richter, Walther Freiherr von Holzhausen, Josef Lokvenc and Albert Becker.

On the 23rd Congress of the Saxon Chess Federation in 1935 in Leipzig, he won his ninth victory in the following year he was at the 24th Congress in Limbach behind Wilhelm Big again in second.

Functionary

Blümich served as rühriger functionary many years the Saxon Chess Federation. He sat down to self-abandonment and for the sport of chess. In a speech on 15 April 1933 he revealed his commitment to National Socialism, culminating in a tribute telegram to Hitler.

Editor

1922 already initiated Blümich chess columns in the Leipziger Tageblatt and in the Leipzig messages. From 1925 drew Blümich for the game part of the German chess magazine responsible, and was from 1932 until his death chief editor. From the edited imposed on him by the textbook by Jean Dufresne and Jacques Lousy ( 15th edition 1941, 16th edition 1943), it redeemed the names of important Jewish chess master.