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General Government
General Government
The General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...

 chess championships
(Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements) were held during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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Participants

  • Alexander Alekhine
    Alexander Alekhine
    Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

      Russia/ Early Modern France
  • Efim Bogoljubow
    Efim Bogoljubow
    Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

      Ukraine/ Germany
  • Paul Felix Schmidt
    Paul Felix Schmidt
    Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist.- Biography :In June 1935, he won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres at Pärnu. In 1936, he won the 8th Estonian Championship at Tallinn. In December 1936, he placed...

      Estonia/ Germany
  • Klaus Junge
    Klaus Junge
    Klaus Junge was one of the youngest German chess masters.-Biography:...

      Chile/ Germany
  • Karl Gilg
    Karl Gilg
    Karl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....

      Czechoslovakia/ Germany
  • Josef Lokvenc
    Josef Lokvenc
    Josef Lokvenc was an Austrian chess master.In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna . In 1938, he tied for 6-7th in Bad Harzburg...

      Austria/ Germany
  • Hans Müller  Austria/ Germany
  • Wolfgang Weil
    Wolfgang Weil
    Wolfgang Weil was an Austrian chess master.Dr. Weil played for Austria at eighths board in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936, and won individual gold medal....

      Austria/ Germany
  • Paul Mross
    Paul Mross
    Paul Mross was a Polish–German chess master.-Biography:...

     Poland/ Germany
  • Teodor Regedziński
    Teodor Regedzinski
    Teodor Regedziński was a Polish chess master.-Biography:Born Polish , Regedziński was of German origin as his father, named Reger. He had lived in Łódź since 1908, enrolling in the Łódź Association of Devotees of the Game of Chess...

     Poland/ Germany
  • Leon Tuhan-Baranowski
    Leon Tuhan-Baranowski
    Leon Tuhan-Baranowski was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer.Born in Sankt Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots . After the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Stolpce near Novogrodek, and then to Warsaw. In 1925, he took 10th in Warsaw...

     Poland/ Germany
  • Fedir Bohatyrchuk  Ukraine/ Soviet Union


and other German players  / Germany.

Regedziński played as Reger, and Tuhan-Baranowski as Lisse.

An infamous Hans Frank
Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and later became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany...

, the Governor-General
Governor-General
A Governor-General, is a vice-regal person of a monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription. Depending on the political arrangement of the territory, a Governor General can be a governor of high rank, or a principal governor ranking above "ordinary" governors.- Current uses...

 of occupied central Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, was a patron of those tournaments.

Krakow
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 / Krynica
Krynica
Krynica-Zdrój is a town in Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland in the Beskids mountains, inhabited by over eleven thousand people. It is the biggest spa town in Poland called The Pearl of Polish Spas; a tourist and winter sport centre. It was first recorded in 1547 and became a...

 / Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 1940

The first GG-ch was held in Krakow/Krynica/Warsaw in 3–17 November 1940.
# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
1 Anton Kohler
Anton Kohler
Anton Kohler , a German chess player from Munich.In 1937, he shared 3rd in Stadtprozelten / Main, and took 12th in Bad Oeynhausen . In 1938, he won in Heilbronn, and tied for 8-9th in Bad Oeynhausen . In 1938/39, he tied for 1st-3rd in Karlsruhe...

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2 Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

½ x ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1
3 Kurt Richter
Kurt Richter
Kurt Paul Otto Joseph Richter was a German chess International Master and chess writer.- Chess achievements :...

½ ½ x ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 7
4 Josef Lokvenc
Josef Lokvenc
Josef Lokvenc was an Austrian chess master.In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna . In 1938, he tied for 6-7th in Bad Harzburg...

½ ½ ½ x 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 6
5 Paul Mross
Paul Mross
Paul Mross was a Polish–German chess master.-Biography:...

½ 1 0 0 x 1 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 1
6 Hans Müller 0 ½ ½ 1 0 x ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½
7 Max Blümich
Max Blümich
Reinhold Max Blümich was a German chess master and editor.At the beginning of his chess career, he played in Leipzig where tied for 4-6th in 1909, took 8th in 1910, took 3rd in 1911, shared 1st in 1912, and took 5th in 1913.After World War I, he won or shared 1st at Mittwerda 1922, Frankfurt...

0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ x 1 ½ ½ 1 ½
8 Carl Ahues
Carl Ahues
Carl Oscar Ahues was a German chess International Master.He was Berlin champion in 1910. He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo , tied for 4-5th in Scarborough , and tied for 3-5th in Liege...

½ 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 x ½ ½ 1 ½
9 Karl Gilg
Karl Gilg
Karl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....

0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ x ½ ½ ½
10 Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger was a German chess player and International Master .An avid cigar smoker, Kieninger was nicknamed "Eisernen Schorsch" because of his fighting style. He won the German Chess Championship in 1937, 1940, and 1947...

0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ x 0 1 4
11 Ludwig Rellstab
Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)
Ludwig Rellstab was a German chess master.He was German Champion, winning at Bad Oeynhausen 1942. He took 8th in the European Championship at Munich 1942 . In 1943, he took 6th in Salzburg...

0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 x 1 4
12 Max Eisinger 1 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 x

Krakow
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 / Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 1941

The second GG-ch was held in Krakow/Warsaw in 5–19 October 1941.
# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total
1 Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

x 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1
2 Paul Felix Schmidt
Paul Felix Schmidt
Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist.- Biography :In June 1935, he won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres at Pärnu. In 1936, he won the 8th Estonian Championship at Tallinn. In December 1936, he placed...

0 x 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
3 Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

0 0 x ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1
4 Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge was one of the youngest German chess masters.-Biography:...

½ ½ ½ x ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 7
5 Josef Lokvenc
Josef Lokvenc
Josef Lokvenc was an Austrian chess master.In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna . In 1938, he tied for 6-7th in Bad Harzburg...

½ 0 ½ ½ x 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1
6 Teodor Regedziński
Teodor Regedzinski
Teodor Regedziński was a Polish chess master.-Biography:Born Polish , Regedziński was of German origin as his father, named Reger. He had lived in Łódź since 1908, enrolling in the Łódź Association of Devotees of the Game of Chess...

0 0 0 0 1 x 0 1 0 1 1 1 5
7 Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger was a German chess player and International Master .An avid cigar smoker, Kieninger was nicknamed "Eisernen Schorsch" because of his fighting style. He won the German Chess Championship in 1937, 1940, and 1947...

0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 x ½ 0 ½ 0 0
8 Eduard Hahn ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ x 1 1 ½ 0
9 Max Blümich
Max Blümich
Reinhold Max Blümich was a German chess master and editor.At the beginning of his chess career, he played in Leipzig where tied for 4-6th in 1909, took 8th in 1910, took 3rd in 1911, shared 1st in 1912, and took 5th in 1913.After World War I, he won or shared 1st at Mittwerda 1922, Frankfurt...

0 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 x ½ 1 ½
10 Carl Carls
Carl Carls
Carl Carls was a German chess master.In 1922, he took 2nd, behind Erhardt Post, in Bad Oeynhausen...

½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ x 1 0
11 Heinz Nowarra
Heinz Nowarra
Heinz Nowarra was a German chess master.He tied for 4-6th in Berlin City Chess Championship in 1938 , shared 1st with Berthold Koch and Paul Mross at Berlin 1938 , tied for 15-16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 , tied for 9-10th at Berlin 1939 , and took 10th at Berlin 1940 Heinz Nowarra (born 1897 –...

½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 x 1
12 Paul Mross
Paul Mross
Paul Mross was a Polish–German chess master.-Biography:...

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 ½ 1 0 x

Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 / Lublin
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

 / Krakow
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 1942

The third GG-ch was held in Warsaw/Lublin/Krakow in 11–24 October 1942.
# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total
1 Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

x 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1
2 Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge was one of the youngest German chess masters.-Biography:...

0 x ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1
3 Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

1 ½ x 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 6
4 Fritz Sämisch ½ ½ 0 x 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½
5 Rudolf Keller
Rudolf Keller
Rudolf Keller was a German chess master.Born in Dresden, he was the brother of Edith Keller-Herrmann. In 1935-1938, he won Dresden and Saxony championships. He took 4th at Berlin 1938, shared 1st with Ludwig Rellstab and Paul Michel at Bad Warmbrunn 1939, played in a match Germany vs...

½ 0 ½ 0 x 1 0 1 ½ 1 1
6 Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger was a German chess player and International Master .An avid cigar smoker, Kieninger was nicknamed "Eisernen Schorsch" because of his fighting style. He won the German Chess Championship in 1937, 1940, and 1947...

½ 0 0 1 0 x 1 0 ½ 1 1 5
7 Alfred Brinckmann
Alfred Brinckmann
Alfred Brinckmann was a German chess International Master, author and functionary from Kiel.-The chess player:He participated eight times in German Chess Championship in the period 1921-1949...

0 1 0 0 1 0 x ½ ½ 1 ½
8 Werner Kunerth 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ x ½ 0 0 4
9 Wolfgang Weil
Wolfgang Weil
Wolfgang Weil was an Austrian chess master.Dr. Weil played for Austria at eighths board in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936, and won individual gold medal....

0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ x 0 1 4
10 H. Roepstorff 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 x 1 4
11 Hans Zollner 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 x

Krynica 1943

The fourth GG-ch was held in Krynica in 25 November–5 December 1943.
# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
1 Josef Lokvenc
Josef Lokvenc
Josef Lokvenc was an Austrian chess master.In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna . In 1938, he tied for 6-7th in Bad Harzburg...

x 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Wilhelm Kuppe 1 x 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½
3 Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

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4 Georg Klaus
Georg Klaus
Georg Klaus was a German philosopher, cybernetician, chess master, and functionary.In 1928, he started his chess career in Nuremberg, playing at Arbeiterschachklub Nürnberg, then Nürnberger Schachklub Noris. In 1933, he won in the Franconian championships...

0 ½ 1 x 1 0 0 0 1 1
5 Leon Tuhan-Baranowski
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer.Born in Sankt Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots . After the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Stolpce near Novogrodek, and then to Warsaw. In 1925, he took 10th in Warsaw...

0 ½ ½ 0 x 0 0 1 1 1 4
6 H. Roepstorff 0 0 0 1 1 x 1 0 1 1 4
7 Edith Keller 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 x 0 0 1
8 Heinz Nowarra
Heinz Nowarra
Heinz Nowarra was a German chess master.He tied for 4-6th in Berlin City Chess Championship in 1938 , shared 1st with Berthold Koch and Paul Mross at Berlin 1938 , tied for 15-16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 , tied for 9-10th at Berlin 1939 , and took 10th at Berlin 1940 Heinz Nowarra (born 1897 –...

0 0 0 1 0 1 1 x 0 ½
9 Egon Gilles 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 x 0 3
10 Franz Herzog 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 x 2

Radom
Radom
Radom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...

 1944

The fifth GG-ch was held in Radom in February 1944.
# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
1 Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

x ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Fedir Bohatyrchuk ½ x ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
3 H. Roepstorff 0 ½ x 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
4 Leon Tuhan-Baranowski
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer.Born in Sankt Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots . After the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Stolpce near Novogrodek, and then to Warsaw. In 1925, he took 10th in Warsaw...

0 0 0 x ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 5
5 Franz Herzog 0 0 0 ½ x 0 1 1 1 1
6 Planck 0 0 0 ½ 1 x 0 1 1 1
7 Heinz Nowarra
Heinz Nowarra
Heinz Nowarra was a German chess master.He tied for 4-6th in Berlin City Chess Championship in 1938 , shared 1st with Berthold Koch and Paul Mross at Berlin 1938 , tied for 15-16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 , tied for 9-10th at Berlin 1939 , and took 10th at Berlin 1940 Heinz Nowarra (born 1897 –...

0 0 0 0 0 1 x 1 1 1 4
8 Probst 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 1 1 2
9 Sänger
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10 Meckel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 0
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