Herbert Heinicke

Theodoro Herbert Heinicke ( born March 14, 1905 in Porto Alegre (Brazil ), † April 4, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German chess player.

Curriculum vitae

He spent his childhood in Brazil, where he was born as the son of wealthy landowners. 1914 Heinicke parents were expropriated, and the family returned to Germany, where she later lived first in Wiesbaden in Arnstadt. Heinicke attended high school in Erfurt in 1924 and was a high school. A study was not financially viable because of the expropriation of the family.

He then completed in Hamburg as a bank clerk and worked as an employee at a coffee - importing company. Financially supported by his employer dared Heinicke 1936 step into independence and founded a company for steel, which he headed until old age.

In 1988, he died after a heart attack.

Of chess career

Heinicke learned in Arnstadt Chess by Anderssen student Fritz Riemann. After moving to Hamburg, he joined the Hamburg SK, with whom he was in 1956 and 1958 German team champion. In 1972 he was a founding member of the chess section of the rowing club Favorite Hammonia, to which he belonged until his death.

Heinicke won by his own account seventeen times the Hamburg Championships and took 1934-1970 to eight German championships. His greatest achievement was winning the runner-up in 1953. Too in international tournaments he cut successfully (eg tournament victory in Graz in 1941, second places in Oldenburg in 1948 and Travemünde 1951), so that he was in 1953 appointed to the International Master. In Munich in 1936 and Helsinki in 1952, he represented the German team at the Chess Olympiads, in addition, he was in several battles and friendship at the European Team Championship 1957 German selection.

Although Heinicke not last hardly participated in tournaments due to his profession after 1955, he was a strong player to old age. Until 1982, he played with the team in the chess section of the rowing clubs Favorite Hammonia Hamburg in the first Bundesliga, from 1982 to 1987 in the second division.

Others

Heinicke also devoted himself actively to the sport of boxing. Here he became German Vice Champion in the lightweight.