Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament was a chess competition organized by the family of Austrian silk manufacturer Leopold Trebitsch. Twenty tournaments were played in Vienna between 1907 and 1938.[1]

Wealthy industrialist Leopold Trebitsch (18421906) was a lover of chess and a patron of chess competitions. His family advanced the considerable sum of 100,000 kronen to the Vienna Chess Club (Wiener Schachklub) to organize a series of tournaments. Since Trebitsch died one month before the start of the first tournament, the competitions were named in his memory. Six of the first nine events (190718) were won by Carl Schlechter, but his death in December 1918, along with the loss of the Club's Trebitsch fund in the aftermath of Austria's debacle in World War I, put a temporary halt to the tournament. In 1926, Leopold Trebitsch's son, Oskar, made more funds available, enabling eleven additional competitions to be held until 1938, when Germany's annexation of Austria ended the event.

Winners

#YearWinner
11907 Jacques Mieses (German Empire) /  Saxony
21909/10 Richard Réti (Austria-Hungary) /  Slovakia
31910/11 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) /  Austria
41911/12 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) /  Austria
51913 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) /  Austria
61914 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) /  Austria
71915 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) /  Austria
81916/17 Carl Schlechter (Austria-Hungary) /  Austria
91917/18 Milan Vidmar (Austria-Hungary) /  Slovenia
101926 Rudolf Spielmann (Austria)
111927 Ernst Grünfeld (Austria)
121928 Ernst Grünfeld (Austria)
 Sándor Takács (Hungary)
131929/30 Rudolf Spielmann (Austria)
 Hans Kmoch (Austria)
141931 Albert Becker (Austria)
151932 Albert Becker (Austria)
161933 Ernst Grünfeld (Austria)
 Hans Müller (Austria)
171934/35 Albert Becker (Austria)
181935 Erich Eliskases (Austria)
 Lajos Steiner (Hungary)
191936 Henryk Friedman (Poland)
201937/38 Lajos Steiner (Hungary)

References

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