Ludwig Schmitt was a German chess master.

Schmitt was born in Augsburg (Bavaria) and later lived in Breslau, Prussian Silesia. He won the Silesian Chess Congress

Silesian Chess Congress

The first Silesian Chess Congress was held in 1922. When the German Chess Federation started in 1877, there were not many regional chess federations. On 19 September 1877 the Breslau Chess Association was founded by amongst others Theodor von Scheve. In 1895 Görlitz and 1899 Liegnitz were...

 in 1927, 1933 and 1934, took 6th in 1930 (Heinz Foerder

Yosef Porath

-Biography:Yosef Porath was born Heinz Josef Foerder in Germany. He took the name Yosef Porath in Israel. In 1933, he lost his job after the Nazis assumed power in Germany, and moved to Riga. In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine...

 won), and 5th place in 1939 (Erich Weinitschke

Erich Weinitschke

Erich Weinitschke was a German chess master.He took 10th at Bad Elster 1938 , took 4th at Bad Warmbrunn 1939 and won a play-off match against Heuaecker for the Silesian Champion title , tied for 13-14th at Bad Oeynhausen 1941 .-References:...

 won) in these events. He was a Champion of Sachsen in 1929, 1932, 1933, and of Bayern in 1953.

He took 13th at Magdeburg 1927 (DSB Congress

DSB Congress

The Deutschen Schachbund had been founded in Leipzig on 18 July 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairman and Hermann Zwanziger the General Secretary...

, Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann

Rudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer.-Career:He was a lawyer but never worked as one....

 won), tied for 8-10th at Brno 1931 (Salo Flohr

Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...

 won), took 18th at Bad Aachen 1934 (2nd German Chess Championship

German Chess Championship

The German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion.Prior to 1880 three different federations organized chess activities in Germany: the Westdeutscher Schachbund , the Norddeutscher Schachbund and the Mitteldeutscher Schachbund . Each one organized its...

, Carl Carls

Carl Carls

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

 won), tied for 5-7th at Bad Oeynhausen 1937 (4th GER-ch, 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...

 won), tied for 12-14th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 (5th GER-ch, Erich Eliskases

Erich Eliskases

Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition....

 won),

As a supporter of Otto Strasser

Otto Strasser

Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and 'left-wing' member of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Strasser was part of the ‘left-wing’ faction of the party, along with his brother Gregor Strasser, and broke from the party due to disputes with the ‘Hitlerite’ faction...

 (brother of Gregor Strasser

Gregor Strasser

Gregor Strasser was a politician of the National Socialist German Workers Party...

), it is suspected that Schmitt was targeted by the Nazi regime

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 for execution during the Night of Long Knives and the Gestapo

Gestapo

The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 accidentally killed music critic Willi Schmid

Willi Schmid

Wilhelm Eduard Schmid , better known as Willi Schmid, was a German music critic, and an accidental victim of the Night of the Long Knives in a case of mistaken identity....

 instead.

After 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...

, he took 16th at Augsburg 1946 (Wolfgang Unzicker

Wolfgang Unzicker

Wolfgang Unzicker was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970.He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead....

won), shared 1st with Unzicker at Leipzig 1953 (15th GER-ch) and lost a play-off match for the title to him (0.5 : 3.5) in January 1954.