One of the youngest German chess masters of all time who won the Chilean Chess Championship in 1922.
He was born in Chile to a German chess champion father.
He was known for playing his matches in a Nazi uniform and would later die as a lieutenant, refusing to surrender, in combat against Allied troops on April 17, 1945 in the battle of Welle on the Lüneburg Heath.
He had four brothers, all of whom played chess.
He was a chess Prodigy much like modern chess star Magnus Carlsen.
