Wilhelm Schönmann

Peter Wilhelm Heinrich Schönmann ( born April 7, 1889 in Burgdorf, † May 15, 1970 in Hamburg ) was a German chess master.

Tournament chess

Nice man was in 1910 in Hamburg 8th - 9th the main tournament B, Section 5 of the DSB Congress. In 1913, he shared 2nd place in Hamburg. In 1914 he won in Hamburg a simultaneous game against Emanuel Lasker and was 15th in the main tournament A of the 19th DSB Congress in Mannheim.

In the tournament of the DSB Congress in Berlin in 1920, he finished second and fourth in Kiel in the same year. In the B- tournament in Vienna in 1926, he finished shared first place. A year later, he was 6 - 7th in Bremen and 10th - 11th for DSB Congress in Magdeburg. In 1928, he won with 10 out of 13 by tag battle against Rodatz ( 1 = 2-0) the championship of Greater Hamburg and the tournament in Lübeck ( Quadrangular ). In 1930 he was in Hamburg shared 1st, 1932 in Hamburg and 2nd and 8th in the 3rd German Championships 1935 in Aachen.

At the Chess Olympiad 1926 he played on board 2 At the Chess Olympiad in 1928 was its result 5 = 3-7.

After 1945, he starred in international correspondence chess tournaments. In the finale of the second correspondence chess World Team Championship, he played on board 5 of the German national team, finishing in 1955 with her ​​third place two years later he was made an honorary member of the Association of German correspondence chess friends.

Study Composer

Schönmann published at the beginning of his chess career two chess studies.

Solution: 1 Bh6 -d2 ! Ke1xd2 2 f7 - a2 - F8D A1d 3 DF8 f2 Kd2 c1 4 Df2 - e1 Kc 1 -b2 5 De1 -d2 Kb2 -b1 6 KC4 b3 black is matt

Life

Nice man was up in March 1955 headmaster at the Lutterothschule in Hamburg -Eimsbuettel.