Wilhelm Ernst 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 was a winner at Weidenau 1937. He played several times in 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...

; took 2nd, behind Kurt Richter

Kurt Richter

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

, at Aachen 1935,
took 11th at Bad Oeynhausen 1937 (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), took 16th at Bad Oeynhausen 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), tied for 8-11th at Bad Oeynhausen 1941 (Paul Felix Schmidt

Paul Felix Schmidt

Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist.- Biography :In June 1935, he won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres at Pärnu. In 1936, he won the 8th Estonian Championship at Tallinn. In December 1936, he placed...

 and Klaus Junge

Klaus Junge

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

 won), tied for 13-14th at Weidenau 1947 (Kieninger won), tied for 12-14th at Essen 1948 (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), and shared 11th at Düsseldorf 1951 (Rudolf Teschner

Rudolf Teschner

Rudolf Teschner was a German chess master and writer.Teschner was seven times Champion of Berlin. In 1948, he won an East-Zones Championship in Bad Doberan, and later in 1951 took the German Championship .Teschner was leading member of the German Chess Olympic team in 1952 and 1956...

 won).

Ernst represented Germany in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad

3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad

The 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad was held by German Chess Federation as a counterpart of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with reference to 1924 and 1928 events....

at Munich 1936, where won team bronze medal and individual silver medal on first reserve board. In 1940, he lost a match to Kieninger (4 : 6) in Cologne.