Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)

Ludwig Adolf Friedrich Hans Rellstab ( born November 23, 1904 in Schoeneberg, † February 14, 1983 in Wedel ) was a German chess master.

Life

Ludwig Rellstab was the son of the physicist Ludwig M. Rellstab and his wife Anna Kuhlgatz. The pianist Anne Käthe Rellstab is his older sister; the music critic Ludwig Rellstab his paternal great-grandfather.

With about eleven years Rellstab learned the game of chess in the family environment. After his graduation in 1924 he began to study at the university in his home town of Berlin mathematics and physics in the same year. He later moved with the same subjects at the University of Munich. After a few semesters, he gave up his studies without degree and earned his living from then on as a chess player and chess writer, in 1932 to 1943. As a staff journalist for the Scherl -Verlag in Berlin From April 1943 to September 1944, he headed the editorial board of the German chess magazine.

The Berlin Chess Club took him soon already a member. There Rellstab met the key players this year: Emanuel Lasker, Akiba Rubinstein and Richard Teichmann. In Duisburg Rellstab 1929 earned the title of Master of the German Chess Federation. In the following years Rellstab had participated in many tournaments and was built in 1942 by winning the tournament of the Greater German Chess Federation in Bad Oeynhausen " masters of Germany ." At the European Championships in Munich in the same year defeated Rellstab the reigning world champion Alexander Alekhine.

At the end of the Second World War Rellstab was employed as a soldier in Austria and Hungary. In the summer of 1945, Rellstab could settle in Hamburg, where he founded a year later (July 1946), among others, together with Carl and Hans Ahues Rodenburg the club Hamburger chess society. In 1950, he was with this club German team champion. The Hamburger Abendblatt dedicated Rellstab for his chess column; a task which for years he nachkam with much enthusiasm.

He was three times champion city of Berlin and five times champion city of Hamburg. Other achievements include his victories in Sopot 1937, Bad Elster 1938, Stuttgart 1947, Cuxhaven 1950, Viborg 1957, Hastings 1973, Bagneux 1973. 18 times he qualified for the finals of the German Cup. Rellstab represented Germany at the unofficial Chess Olympics in 1936 in Munich as well as in three Chess Olympiads (1950, 1952, 1954). He was also invited to many other countries fighting.

In addition, he gave chess lessons and worked at many chess magazines with. He commented several years in chess echo many games. For the German Chess Federation, he took over fifteen years organizational duties as Secretary, Tournament Director and Press Secretary. It is through this work, but also through his vast knowledge, he earned the affectionate nickname "Chess Professor ".

In 1950, the World Chess Federation FIDE him awarded the newly created title of International Master. A year later Rellstab became an official referee FIDE. As of that same year recorded Rellstab as editor of the "Chess Bag Yearbook " responsible and he remained throughout his life this editorial connected.

Rellstab had a son, Ludwig ( * 1935), who like his father was a good chess player, but did not reach the skill level by far.

At the age of 78 years Rellstab died in 1983 in Wedel. His best historical Elo rating was 2609, respectively. These he reached in June 1938.

Publications

  • Queen's Gambit. Textbook for beginners and intermediates (1949 )
  • The game of chess. A basic course with scheduled presentation of the Chess Openings (1956 )
  • World History of Chess - Dr. Emanuel Lasker, Verlag Dr. Wild Hagen, Hamburg 1958
  • Disputes arising from the tournament practice
  • Tournament Paperback (along with Alfred Brinckmann )
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