Wilhelm Heinrich Hilse 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 tied for 12-13th at Coburg 1904 (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 A, Augustin Neumann

Augustin Neumann

Augustin Neumann was an Austrian chess master.He tied for 3rd-5th at Vienna 1901/02 ; took 2nd, behind Leopold Loewy, Jr at Vienna 1902 ; took 3rd at Hannover 1902 ; took 5th at Hilversum 1903 ; tied for 4-5th at Vienna 1904 .A...

 won), shared 1st at Bremen 1906 (Quadrangular), took 4th at Hannover 1907 (Quadrangular), won at Barmbek 1911 (Quadrangular), and took 13th 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...

 (DSB-Congress, Hauptturnier A, B. Hallegua won).

After World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, he shared 1st at Hamburg 1921, took 7th at Kiel 1922, took 11th at Bad Oeynhausen 1922 (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), tied for 4-5th at Frankfurt 1923 (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 3rd-5th at Vienna 1926 (DSV Kongress, Karl Gilg

Karl Gilg

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

 and Heinrich Wagner

Heinrich Wagner

Heinrich Wagner was a German chess master.In 1920/21, he won in Kiel. In 1921, he took 8th in Hamburg , and won in Hamburg . In 1922 he tied for 3rd-5th in Oeynhausen...

 won), tied for 10-11th at Magdeburg 1927 (DSB-Congress, 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), and shared 3rd 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).

He played for Germany in a match against Austria at Vienna 1926, and in the 2nd Chess Olympiad

2nd Chess Olympiad

The 2nd Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 21 and August 6, 1928 in The Hague, Netherlands.The final results were as...

at The Hague 1928.