Paul Krüger (12 October 1871 – 7 August 1939) was a German chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He lived in Hamburg. At the beginning of his career, he shared 2nd at Dresden 1892 (the 7th 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...

, Hauptturnier C), won at Danzig 1898, tied for 2nd-3rd at Berlin 1899/1900, tied for 4-5th at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB–Congress, Hauptturnier A, Rudolf Swiderski

Rudolf Swiderski

Rudolf Swiderski was a German chess master.He took 6th at Eisenach 1896 , took 2nd at Annaberg 1897, tied for 7-8th at Berlin 1897, and tied for 3-6th in Amsterdam. He made his mark in 1900 when he won 1st place at the Munich Hauptturnier...

 won), took 11th at Haarlem 1901 (Adolf Georg Olland

Adolf Georg Olland

Adolf Georg Olland was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe. Born in Utrecht, he was a medical doctor....

 won), won at Breslau 1912 (the 18th DSB–Congress, Hauptturnier B), won at Hamburg 1913, and tied for 15-16th at Mannheim 1914

Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

The 19th DSB Congress , comprising several tournaments, began on20 July 1914 in Mannheim. Germany declared war on Russia and on France , Britain joining in the next day...

 (interrupted the 19th DSB–Congress, 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...

 won).

After World War I

World War I

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, he tied for 5-7th at Hamburg 1921 (the 21st DSB–Congress, Ehrhardt Post

Ehrhardt Post

Alfred M. Ehrhardt Post was a German chess master and functionary.-Biography:At the beginning of his career, he won and tied for 3-6th at Hanover 1902 . He tied for 7-8th at Coburg 1904 and 12-13th at Barmen 1905...

 won), took 7th at Bad Oeynhausen 1922 (the 22nd DSB–Congress, Post won), took 7th at Frankfurt 1923 (the 23rd DSB–Congress, Ernst Grünfeld

Ernst Grünfeld

----Ernst Franz Grünfeld , an Austrian grandmaster and writer specializing in opening theory, was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world....

 won), tied for 6-7th at Bremen 1927 (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:...

won), shared 3rd at Hamburg 1927, won twice in Salzuflen in 1925 and 1930, and took 4th at Bad Pyrmont 1931 (Bogoljubow won).

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