Heinrich Wagner

Heinrich Wagner ( born August 9, 1888 in Hamburg, † June 24, 1959 ) was a German chess player.

By profession, Heinrich Wagner was a senior teacher. After the First World War, he played for the Kiel Schachgesellschaft of 1884. In 1921 he won in Kiel a master tournament before Friedrich Sämisch, chess congress of the German Chess Federation, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main, he finished behind Ernst Grünfeld together with Ehrhardt Post second place. In Vienna in 1926, he won together with Karl Gilg, 1930, he won a tournament in Hamburg, the same year he defeated in Hamburg Herbert Heinicke in a competition with 8,5:3,5. For Germany he played from 1927 to 1931 at four Chess Olympiads, each with a positive result. The German team won the bronze medal with him in 1930 in Hamburg.

In 1953 it by the World Chess Federation of the title of International Master (IM) was given. The best historical Elo rating of 2585, the value was determined for the year 1925. At that time he was taking into account the dubious bases for calculation of a historical Elo rating of the world's top twenty chess players. He was played a Heinrich Wagner Memorial Tournament 1959 in Kiel for the honor which was won by the Danish IM Jens Enevoldsen before Rudolf Teschner. Wagner was one of the largest collections of books about chess tournaments in possession.