Paul Baender, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paul Baender

German-Bolivian chess player

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1906

Place of Birth: Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1985

Profession: politician, chess player

Nationality: Bolivia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Paul Baender

  • Paul Baender, also known in Spanish as Pablo Baender (30 November 1906 – 18 December 1985), was a German–Bolivian chess player and functionary. Born in Rosdzin, now part of Katowice, Upper Silesia, he moved to Görlitz in 1921.
  • When Nazis came to power in 1933, Baender, being a Jew, fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia.
  • In November 1937, he emigrated to La Paz, Bolivia.
  • Baender played for Bolivia in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939.After World War II, he came back to Germany (Soviet occupation zone) in 1947.
  • He became a communist politician (Staatssekretär in 1950-1952) in German Democratic Republic, and also the President of the GDR Chess Federation (Präsident des Deutschen Schachbunds) until 1953.
  • Baender was arrested on 15 December 1952 during a stalinist purge with antisemitic ressentiments.
  • After Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech to the delegates to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, he was freed in 1956.
  • Baender died in 1985 in Berlin.

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