Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament

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Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament was a chess competition organized by the family of Austrian silk manufacturer Leopold Trebitsch. Twenty tournaments were played in Vienna between 1907 and 1938. [1]

Wealthy industrialist Leopold Trebitsch (18421906) was a lover of chess and a patron of chess competitions. His family advanced the considerable sum of 100,000 kronen to the Vienna Chess Club (Wiener Schachklub) to organize a series of tournaments. Since Trebitsch died one month before the start of the first tournament, the competitions were named in his memory. Six of the first nine events (190718) were won by Carl Schlechter, but his death in December 1918, along with the loss of the Club's Trebitsch fund in the aftermath of Austria's debacle in World War I, put a temporary halt to the tournament. In 1926, Leopold Trebitsch's son, Oskar, made more funds available, enabling eleven additional competitions to be held until 1938, when Germany's annexation of Austria ended the event.

Winners

#YearWinner
11907Flag of the German Empire.svg  Jacques Mieses  (German Empire) / Flag of Saxony.svg Saxony
21909/10Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Richard Réti  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
31910/11Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Carl Schlechter  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
41911/12Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Carl Schlechter  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
51913Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Carl Schlechter  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
61914Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Carl Schlechter  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
71915Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Carl Schlechter  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
81916/17Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Carl Schlechter  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
91917/18Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Milan Vidmar  (Austria-Hungary) / Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia
101926Flag of Austria.svg  Rudolf Spielmann  (Austria)
111927Flag of Austria.svg  Ernst Grünfeld  (Austria)
121928Flag of Austria.svg  Ernst Grünfeld  (Austria)
Flag of Hungary (1915-1918, 1919-1946).svg  Sándor Takács  (Hungary)
131929/30Flag of Austria.svg  Rudolf Spielmann  (Austria)
Flag of Austria.svg  Hans Kmoch  (Austria)
141931Flag of Austria.svg  Albert Becker  (Austria)
151932Flag of Austria.svg  Albert Becker  (Austria)
161933Flag of Austria.svg  Ernst Grünfeld  (Austria)
Flag of Austria.svg  Hans Müller  (Austria)
171934/35Flag of Austria.svg  Albert Becker  (Austria)
181935Flag of Austria.svg  Erich Eliskases  (Austria)
Flag of Hungary (1915-1918, 1919-1946).svg  Lajos Steiner  (Hungary)
191936Flag of Poland.svg  Henryk Friedman  (Poland)
201937/38Flag of Hungary (1915-1918, 1919-1946).svg  Lajos Steiner  (Hungary)

References

  1. History of the Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament (including the list of winners) Archived 2008-12-06 at the Wayback Machine