Gertrud Nüsken

German chess player

Gertrud Nüsken
Country	Germany
Born	(1917-12-21)21 December 1917 Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Died	14 August 1972(1972-08-14) (aged 54) Königs Wusterhausen, Germany

Gertrud Nüsken (née Fröhlich; 21 December 1917 – 14 August 1972) was a German chess player who four times won East Germany Women's Chess Championships (1948, 1950, 1953, 1955). She died in the Interflug plane crash near Königs Wusterhausen.^[1]

Life

Gertrud Nüsken was a mathematician. She worked in wagon construction as a structural engineer. Until his death, she was married to Friedrich “Fritz” Nüsken (1914–1970), the chief structural engineer at Waggonbau Görlitz Corporation, who in 1958 received the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic in second class for science and technology for the development of the articulated double-decker wagon.^[2]

Chess successes

Gertrud Nüsken learned to play chess from her husband in 1946. Just two years later, in 1948 in Bad Doberan she won the 1. German women's championship 1948 in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.^[3] She also was GDR Women's Chess Champion three times.

Other her top places in East Germany Women's Chess Championship were:

in 1949 at 3rd place in Bad Klosterlausnitz, which Mira Kremer won,^[4]
in 1950 shared 1st place with Edith Keller before Mira Kremer in Sömmerda,^[5]
in 1951 at 2nd place behind Mira Kremer in Schwerin,^[6]
in 1952 at 3rd place behind Edith Keller-Herrmann and Mira Kremer in Schwerin,^[7]
in 1953 at 1st place in front of Mira Kremer in Weißenfels,^[8]
in 1954 at 3rd place in Bad Saarow, which Ursula Höroldt won,^[9]
in 1955 at 1st place in front of Ruth Landmesser and Mira Kremer in Zwickau.^[10]

In 1954 Gertrud Nüsken took part in the Women's European Zonal Chess tournament. In 1955 she retired from tournament chess.^[2]

Miscellaneous

In 1959, Gertrud Nüsken won a film idea competition. The successful DEFA comedy movie Papas neue Freundin (Papa's new girlfriend) was made from her story.^[2]

References

^ Schach 9/1972, S. 271
^ ^a ^b ^c Schachkolumne: Gertrud Nüsken, Berliner Zeitung vom 8./9. Januar 2022, S. 55
^ Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft 1948 der Ostzone in Bad Doberan
^ Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft 1949 der Ostzone vom 23. Juli bis 7. August 1949 in Bad Klosterlausnitz
^ 1. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR vom 30. Juli bis 15. August 1950 in Sömmerda (Thüringen)
^ 2. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR vom 1. bis 18. Juli 1951 in Schwerin
^ 3. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR vom 27. Juli bis 13. August 1952 in Schwerin
^ 4. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR vom 15. bis 25. August 1953 in Weißenfels
^ 5. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR vom 30. August bis 16. September 1954 in Saarow
^ 6. Deutsche Damenmeisterschaft der DDR vom 17. Juli bis 2. August 1955 in Zwickau

External links

Wolfgang Pähtz: Damenschach in Ostdeutschland (Women's chess in East Germany). Selbstverlag des Autors 2017 (Berichte, Tabellen, Partien und Bilder)
Deutsche Meisterschaften der Frauen auf TeleSchach