Hermann von Gottschall

Full name	Hermann von Gottschall
Country	Germany
Born	October 16, 1862 Posen, Prussian Posen

Hermann von Gottschall (16 October 1862, Posen - 7 March 1933, Görlitz) was a German chess master, son of the poet Rudolf Gottschall (since 1877: von Gottschall) who was also a noted chess player.

He took 3rd at Nuremberg 1883 (the 3rd DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A), won at Berlin 1883, tied for 13-14th at Hamburg 1885 (the 4th DSB-Congress, Isidor Gunsberg won), tied for 17-18th at Frankfurt 1887 (the 5th DSB-Congress, George Henry Mackenzie won), shared 2nd with Jacques Mieses, behind Siegbert Tarrasch, at Nuremberg 1888, and tied for 5-8th at Berlin 1890 (Emanuel Lasker and Berthold Lasker won).

Dr. Hermann von Gottschall won at Halle 1892, tied for 8-9th at Dresden 1892 (the 7th DSB-Congress, Tarrasch won), tied for 4-6th at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB-Congress, Curt von Bardeleben and Carl Walbrodt won), took 12th at Cologne 1898 (the 11th Amos Burn won), tied for 11-12th at Munich 1900 (the 12th Géza Maróczy, Harry Pillsbury and Carl Schlechter won), tied for 11-12th at Hannover 1902 (the 13th DSB-Congress, Dawid Janowski won), took 13th at Coburg 1904 (the 14th DSB-Congress, Bardeleben, Schlechter and Rudolf Swiderski won), tied for 15-16th at Barmen 1905 (Janowski and Maróczy won), and tied for 14-15th at Düsseldorf 1908 (the 16th DSB-Congress, Frank Marshall won).

In 1918, he took 3rd in Breslau. After World War I, he took 9th at Breslau 1925 (the 24th DSB-Congress, Efim Bogoljubow won), tied for 7-8th at Hannover 1926 (Aron Nimzowitsch won), and tied for 14-16th at Bautzen 1929.

He was the chief editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung and the author of Kleine Problem-Schule (Leipzig 1885), Der sechste Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes. Breslau 1889 (Leipzig 1890), Sammlung von Schachaufgaben (Leipzig 1898-1908), Adolf Anderssen, Altmeister deutscher Schachspielkunst (Leipzig 1912), and Streifzüge durch das Gebiet des Schachproblems (Berlin/Leipzig 1926).