Alfred Brinckmann

Alfred Brinckmann (born 3 January 1891 in Kiel, † May 30, 1967 ) was a German chess player and known chess writer.

The Chess Player

Brinckmann was throughout his life a member of the club Kieler SG 1884. Between 1921 and 1949 he took part in eight German championships. He celebrated his biggest success at the tournament in Berlin in 1927 when he won the first place in front of well-known masters such as Nimzowitsch and Bogolyubov.

In 1953 he became an International Master. His historical highest Elo rating was 2563rd This he reached in July 1929.

The official

Brinckmann played a leading role in the founding of the German Chess Federation ( DSB) in the postwar period. From 1950 to 1967 he was secretary of the DSB. From 1953 to 1955 he took over here the office of tournament director, from 1962 to 1967 he was a referee.

1966 paid tribute to the DSB his services with the Golden Badge of Honour of the Association.

The author

Brinckmann wrote numerous books, including several biographies (over Efim Bogolyubov, Kurt Richter and Siegbert Tarrasch ) and tournament reports. In his 1940 published book chess champion in the struggle: Reflections on chess and the present, he represents National Socialist ideas. In the preface he wrote: This book was created in Germany's biggest historical times. It's common to it by struggle and victory speech, and so also a clear relationship to the present should be seen for herein. With such statements, he was on a line with other Nazi chess writers like Emil Fuchs and Alfred Pfrang that give the game of chess a political dimension and wanted to propagate Stressing its "battle character " as " National Game " to " intellectual exercise ". In his essay published after 1945 books Brinckmann avoided political statements, but distanced himself explicitly from his earlier writings. His textbook of chess, and later edited by Jerzy Konikowski, was released in 2004 9th edition (ISBN 3-88805-244-0 ).