Friedl Rinder

Frieda " Friedl " ( erroneously also: Elfriede ) cattle, born Benzinger ( born November 20, 1905 in Schrobenhausen, † June 3, 2001 in Munich) was a German chess player.

She was five times German champion and reached at the World Championships in 1939 to fourth place. Cattle was a niece of the strong chess player Joseph Benzinger. This taught them the game of chess. For the first time you heard from her in 1932 when she attended the 13th Congress of the Bavarian Chess Federation third place.

German Women's Championships

In 1939, she won in Stuttgart for the first time the German Women's Championship. This she managed four more times, namely in 1949 the all-German Championship in Munich, in 1955 in Krefeld, 1956 in Wolfratshausen and 1959 in Dahn.

Runner-up was 1947 in Seesen, 1951 in Bad Klosterlausnitz and 1953 Waldkirch. Your chess club was the women's chess club in Munich.

Women's World Cup

In 1939, she participated in Buenos Aires at the 9th Women's World Championship. She scored 15 points and finished in the twenty participants in fourth place behind Vera Menchik, Sonja Graf and Bernadette Carrasco. In the years 1959 and 1961 she took part twice in the candidates tournament.

Other activities

Cattle still won several international women's tournaments. Three times they played at a Chess Olympiad for Germany's women's team on the first board, and although at the Chess Olympiad 1957 in Emmen, 1963 in Split, 1966 in Oberhausen.

In 1957 she was awarded by the World Chess Federation FIDE title International Champion.

Private

Her son Gerd cattle was also a well-known chess players: German Youth Champion 1954, Champion of Bavaria in 1960 and study composer. Her daughter was Elfriede Oweger, also chess player (6th place at the German Championship 1968).