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Horst
Lüders
*02/13/1927 †09/21/2003
(Brunswick, June 23, 2001)
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Horst Lüders was one of our earliest friends and advisers for
our still young association. Born and resident all his life in Kiel,
he already joined the Kieler Schachgesellschaft von 1884
[KSG, i.e. Kiel Chess Society of 1884] as a young person in 1943.
There he developed into a strong player who, as a member of the top
team of the KSG, contributed considerably to its advancement as a
top team of Schleswig-Holstein during the sixties. His passion for
chess remained unbroken in his advanced years and so in his last 4
years he strengthened the senior team of the chess club SV Eutin when
competing in the “Verbandsliga” [a kind of regional league]. |
But Horst Lüders was not only
a keen club player, he was also particularly active as a chess reporter
and organizer. Above all we wish to point here to his contributions in
organizing the Alfred Brinckmann Memorial Tournaments (these were international
team rapid chess tournaments for four-man teams, which were held between
1968 and 1994, alternately in Kiel and Hamburg) and to the extension of
friendly connections with other chess clubs such as SV Manhem in Göteborg,
which culminated in mutual visits with concurrent team competitions.
In the field of chess reporting Horst Lüders has made a remarkable
name for himself nationwide with numerous articles, and his valued book
reviews of new publications in a column in the magazine Schach in
Schleswig-Holstein still appeared until shortly before his death.
Horst Lüders was in a lucky situation, he was able to integrate
his passion for chess into his occupation as a librarian: being an employee
of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek [SHLB, i.e. Regional Library
of Schleswig-Holstein] (from 1964 to 1992). It was due to his influence
that in 1974 the library and the collection of miniatures of the Kiel
jurist and problem composer Dr Wilhelm Maßmann were left to the
Regional Library. Horst Lüders has catalogued this collection; the
first edition of the Schachbibliothek Maßmann [Maßmann
Chess Library] was published in 1982. This in turn induced the well-known
Lübeck collector Gerd Meyer also to donate his own very extensive
and valuable chess library as a legacy to the Regional Library. As a result
of the unexpected early death of Gerd Meyer the chess collections Maßmann
and Meyer, which jointly comprised about 13,000 volumes (without duplicates),
were unified by 1994 under the roof of the SHLB.
A new edition of the Maßmann catalogue in 1995 by Horst Lüders,
who even after his retirement in 1992 attended on a voluntary basis to
the ”Special Chess Collection”, was therefore only a preparation
for a more enormous task, namely the bibliographical recording of the
entire library and its publication in book form. He succeeded within 5
years, initially cooperating with his club companion Franz Felser and
afterwards with Mrs. Christine Möhle, and in 2000 the Kieler
Schachkatalog [Kiel Chess Catalogue] appeared in a small edition
of 300 copies.
This chess catalogue represents an outstanding bibliographical piece of
work and may be considered with complete justification as the high point
of Horst Lüders’ life work in chess. In future his name will
remain associated with chess bibliography throughout the world.
In 2002 Horst Lüders, who was already honorary member
of the KSG for many years, received the Certificate of Honour of the German
Chess Federation as a tribute to his many years of commitment to chess.
His colleagues have learned to appreciate Oberamtsrat Horst Lüders
as a competent employee of many years' standing and as an expert committed
to regional bibliography, who especially distinguished himself in paving
the way for electronic data processing in this field. We will join in
honouring his memory.
The club chronicle 100
Jahre KSG von 1884 e.V. communicates some details about
the board activities and the achievements of Horst Lüders in chess:
voluntary works and
success (in German only).
You will find
some additional information on Horst Lüders at the page
Erinnerungen an Horst Lüders
(in German only!)
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