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

1. http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
2. "www.hessischer-schachverband.de/bezirk-5-frankfurt". Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
3. Welcome to the Chessmetrics site
4. Amsterdam (NED-ch10th) 1938 Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-07-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)