Heinz Nowarra (1897–1945?) was a German

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master. Nowarra tied for 4-6th in

Berlin City Chess Championship The Berlin Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament in Germany. The first unofficial Berlin Chess Championship was held in 1853, and Jean Dufresne won a match against Max Lange. Since 1904, official Berlin championships have taken place. The ...

in 1938 (

Kurt Richter Kurt Paul Otto Joseph Richter (24 November 1900 – 29 December 1969) was a German chess International Master (IM) and chess writer. Chess career In 1922, Richter for the first time won the Berlin City Chess Championship. In 1928, he tied fo ...

won), shared first with Berthold Koch and Paul Mross at Berlin 1938 (GER-ch qual), tied for 15-16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 (the fifth GER-ch,

Erich Eliskases Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. In the late 1930s he was considered a potential contender for the World Championship. ...

won), tied for 9-10th at Berlin 1939 ( Franz Mölbitz won), and took 10th at Berlin 1940 (

Efim Bogoljubow Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Early career Bogoljubow learned how to play chess at 15 years old, and dev ...

won), During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, Nowarra played in several tournaments under the auspices of

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(occupied central Poland). He finished fifth in 1941 (Dr Walcker won) and second, behind Mross, in 1942 in the Kraków City championships, tied for 10-12th at Kraków/Warsaw 1941 (the second General Government-ch,

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine. He disliked when Russians sometimes pronounced the of as , , which he regarded as a Yiddish distortion of his name, and insisted that the correct Russian pronunciation was . (March 24, 1946) was a Russian ...

and

Paul Felix Schmidt Paul Felix Schmidt ( – 11 August 1984) was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist. Biography Schmidt was born in 1916, in Narva (then Russian Empire), two years before Estonia became an independent country. He excelled in ch ...

won), tied for 7-8th at Krynica 1943 (the fourth GG-ch,

Josef Lokvenc Josef Lokvenc (1 May 1899, in Vienna – 2 April 1974, in Sankt Pölten) was an Austrian chess master. In 1925, he was awarded the Chess Master title in Braunau. In 1926, he took 3rd in Vienna. In 1936, he tied for 6-7th in Vienna (19th Trebits ...

won), took seventh at Radom 1944 (the fifth GG-ch, Bogoljubow won), and finished fifth in Kraków in May 1944 (

Rudolf Teschner Rudolf Teschner (16 February 1922, Potsdam – 23 July 2006, Berlin-Steglitz) was a German chess master and writer. Biography Teschner was seven times Champion of Berlin. In 1948, he won an East-Zones Championship in Bad Doberan, and later in 195 ...

won). Nowarra took also part in

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tournaments. In December 1944, his game against

Klaus Junge Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 – 17 April 1945) was a Chilean-German chess master who was among the world's leading players during World War II. An officer in the Wehrmacht, he died during the Battle of Hamburg (1945), Battle of Welle shortly bef ...

had to be declared a draw, when Junge left for the front. As

Luděk Pachman Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924 – March 6, 2003) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime i ...

wrote, Nowarra probably shared the fate of his opponent, who died in the final days of World War II. To this day, there is no news about the fate of Nowarra.Helmut Riedl: ''Das Leben und Schaffen von Klaus Junge 1924-1945''. Fruth, Unterhaching 1995, p. 152

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* 1897 births 1945 deaths 20th-century German chess players German military personnel killed in World War II German chess players {{Germany-chess-bio-stub