Paul Tröger | |
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![]() Paul Tröger in 1975 | |
Country | Germany |
Born | Augsburg, Germany | 28 June 1913
Died | 20 January 1992 Cologne, Germany | (aged 78)
Paul Tröger (28 June 1913 – 20 January 1992) was a German chess player and sport journalist, West Germany Chess Championship winner (1957).
Paul Tröger won three medals in West Germany Chess Championship: gold (1957), [1] silver (1949) [2] and bronze (1961). [3] He won international chess tournaments in Kirchheim unter Teck (1947) and Kapfenberg (1955, shared 1st place with Karl Robatsch).
Paul Tröger played for West Germany in the Chess Olympiads: [4]
Paul Tröger played for West Germany in the European Team Chess Championships: [5]
Also Paul Tröger played for West Germany in Clare Benedict Chess Cup (1958, 1962-1963, 1969) and in team competition won 2 gold (1962, 1963) and 2 bronze (1958, 1969) medals. [6] With chess club SG Porz he three times won Chess Bundesliga (1967, 1979, 1982) and two times participated in European Chess Club Cup. [7]
In the period from 1951 to 1955 Paul Tröger was the editor-in-chief of sports magazine Kicker. Later he was the editor of the publications in football magazine Fußball-Woche and chess magazine Deutschen Schachblätter. In 1985, Paul Tröger received the media prize of the German Chess Union.