Wilhelm Orbach
Wilhelm Orbach (1894, Offenbach am Main – 1944, Auschwitz) was a German chess master. He was murdered in the Holocaust.
He took 3rd at Oeynhausen 1922 (22nd DSB–Congress, B tourn); took 4th at Frankfurt 1923 (23rd DSB–Congress, B tourn); tied for 3rd-4th at Breslau 1925 (24th DSB–Congress, B tourn);[1] won at Frankfurt am Main 1925 (City championship);[2] took 2nd at Ems 1926 (Quadrangular).
Orbach won at Hyères 1927; took 4th at Homburg 1927 (Efim Bogoljubow won); tied for 4-5th at Giessen 1928 (Richard Réti won); took 11th at Duisburg 1929 (26th DSB–Congress, Carl Ahues won); took 12th at Frankfurt 1930 (Aron Nimzowitsch won);[3] took 6th at Paris (L'Echiquier) 1938 (Baldur Hoenlinger won).[4]
He was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition" (PDF). Anders Thulin. Malmö. 1 September 2004.
- ^ "Frankfurter Stadtmeisterschaft: Ehrentafel" [Frankfurt City Championship: Honor Roll] (in German). Archived from the original on 1 July 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
- ^ "Event Details: Frankfurt, 1930". Chessmetrics. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938". Archived from the original on 15 December 2010.
- ^ "Kurzer Abriß der Geschichte des Schachspiels in Offenbach am Main" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
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