Herbert Heinicke
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Herbert Heinicke was a German chess
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 master.

Biography

He, like Carlos Otto Junge
Otto Junge
Carlos Otto Junge was a Chilean–German chess master.He was Chilean Champion in 1922. The Junge family moved from Chile to Germany in 1930. They lived in Hamburg, and played in Hamburger Schachklub in 1930s. Carlos Otto Junge became a member of NSDAP in 1932...

 and Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge was one of the youngest German chess masters.-Biography:...

, left South America for Hamburg, Germany.

In 1930, he took 2nd, behind 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...

, and lost a match to him (3,5 : 8,5) in Hamburg. In 1931, he won a match against Heinrich Reinhardt
Heinrich Reinhardt
Heinrich Reinhardt a German–Argentine chess master.In 1932, he tied for 3rd-5th in Hamburg–Altona . In 1935, he won a match against Herbert Taube in Hamburg . In 1937, he tied for 3rd-4th in Berlin...

 in Hamburg (6,5 : 3,5). In 1932, he took 3rd, behind Alfred Brinckmann
Alfred Brinckmann
Alfred Brinckmann was a German chess International Master, author and functionary from Kiel.-The chess player:He participated eight times in German Chess Championship in the period 1921-1949...

 and Kurt Richter
Kurt Richter
Kurt Paul Otto Joseph Richter was a German chess International Master and chess writer.- Chess achievements :...

, in Kiel, and won in Hamburg–Altona. In 1933, he won in Hamburg–Bahrenfeld, and took 3rd in Swinemünde (Ludwig Engels
Ludwig Engels
Ludwig Engels was a German–Brazilian chess master.-Biography:In 1928, Engels tied for 1st-2nd with van Nüss in Düsseldorf. In 1929, he took 4th in Cologne. In 1929, he won in Duisburg. In 1929, he tied for 1st-3rd in Duisburg. In 1930, he tied for 1st-2nd with Weissgerber in Frankfurt...

 and Koch won).

He tied for 4-6th at Bad Aachen 1934 (2nd GER-ch, 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 2nd-3rd with Ludwig Rellstab
Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)
Ludwig Rellstab was a German chess master.He was German Champion, winning at Bad Oeynhausen 1942. He took 8th in the European Championship at Munich 1942 . In 1943, he took 6th in Salzburg...

, behind 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:...

, at Bad Saarow 1935; tied for 6-7th at Bad Nauheim 1936 (Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine
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 and Paul Keres
Paul Keres
Paul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....

 won); tied for 4-5th at Bad Harzburg 1938 (Vasja Pirc
Vasja Pirc
Vasja Pirc was a leading Slovenian chess player. His name is most familiar to contemporary players as the originator of the hypermodern Pirc Defense...

 won); tied for 2nd-4th at Bad Elster 1939 (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), and tied for 6-9th at Bad Oeynhausen 1939 (6th GER-ch, Eliskases won).

During World War II, he took 3rd at Berlin 1940 (Bogoljubow won); tied for 6-9th at Bad Oeynhausen 1940 (7th 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), shared 1st with Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge was one of the youngest German chess masters.-Biography:...

 at Hamburg 1941, and shared 1st with Karl Poschauko
Karl Poschauko
Karl Poschauko was an Austrian chess master.At the beginning of his career, he took 3rd at Vienna 1921 , shared 4th and won at Linz 1924, and took 3rd at Budapest 1926...

 at Graz 1941.

After the war, he tied for 2nd-3rd at Bad Harzburg 1946 (Carl Ahues
Carl Ahues
Carl Oscar Ahues was a German chess International Master.He was Berlin champion in 1910. He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo , tied for 4-5th in Scarborough , and tied for 3-5th in Liege...

 won); tied for 4-5th at Hamburg 1947 (Lange won); took 5th at Essen 1947 (Kieninger won); tied for 3rd-4th at Lüneburg 1947 (Bogoljubow won); tied for 2nd-3rd at Oldenburg 1948 (Povilas Tautvaišas
Povilas Tautvaišas
Povilas Tautvaišas was a Lithuanian-American chess master.-Biography:He played twice for the Lithuanian team in the Chess Olympiads, at eighth board at Munich 1936 , and at fourth board in the 8th Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939, during which World War II broke out...

 won); won at Hamburg 1949; tied for 3rd-4th at Oldenburg 1949 (Elmārs Zemgalis
Elmars Zemgalis
Elmārs Zemgalis , is a Latvian-American chess master and mathematics professor. He was awarded an Honorary Grandmaster title in 2003.- Biography :...

 and Bogoljubow won), and shared 6th at Bad Pyrmont (FRG-ch, Bogoljubow won).

He took 2nd, behind Lothar Schmid
Lothar Schmid
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid is a German chess grandmaster who was born in Dresden. He is best known as the arbiter of several World Chess Championship matches...

, at Travemünde 1951; shared 1st at Hagen 1952; tied for 2nd-3rd at Hamburg 1952; tied for 2nd-3rd, behind 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....

, at Berlin 1953 (FRG-ch).

Heinicke played for Germany in Chess Olympiads:
  • In 1936, at eighth board in 3rd unofficial Olympiad in Munich (+8 –0 =10);
  • In 1952, at fourth board in 10th Chess Olympiad
    10th Chess Olympiad
    The 10th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 9 and August 31, 1952, in Helsinki, Finland.-References:* OlimpBase...

     in Helsinki (+2 –5 =3).

He won team bronze medal and individual silver medal at Munich 1936.

He also represented West Germany in several friendly matches vs Yugoslavia (1951, 1952, 1954, 1956), The Netherlands (1951, 1954), Switzerland (1952), Austria (1953), and in 1st European Chess Team Championship at Vienna 1957.

Awarded the IM title in 1953.

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