View source for Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament

'''Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament''' was a chess competition organized by the family of [[Austria]]n silk manufacturer Leopold Trebitsch. Twenty tournaments were played in [[Vienna]] between 1907 and 1938.<ref>[http://www.endgame.nl/trebitsch.htm History of the Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament (including the list of winners)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206025115/http://www.endgame.nl/trebitsch.htm |date=2008-12-06 }}</ref>

Wealthy industrialist Leopold Trebitsch (1842&ndash;1906) was a lover of chess and a patron of chess competitions. His family advanced the considerable sum of 100,000 [[Austro-Hungarian krone|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 (1907&ndash;18) 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 [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]'s [[Anschluss|annexation of Austria]] ended the event. 

==Winners==
:{| class="sortable wikitable"
! # !!Year !! Winner
|-
| 1 || 1907 || {{flagathlete|[[Jacques Mieses]]|German Empire}} / {{flag|Saxony}}
|-
| 2 || 1909/10 || {{flagathlete|[[Richard Réti]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{flag|Slovakia}}
|-
| 3 || 1910/11 || {{flagathlete|[[Carl Schlechter]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{AUT}}
|-
| 4 || 1911/12 || {{flagathlete|[[Carl Schlechter]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{AUT}}
|-
| 5 || 1913 || {{flagathlete|[[Carl Schlechter]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{AUT}}
|-
| 6 || 1914 || {{flagathlete|[[Carl Schlechter]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{AUT}}
|-
| 7 || 1915 || {{flagathlete|[[Carl Schlechter]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{AUT}}
|-
| 8 || 1916/17 || {{flagathlete|[[Carl Schlechter]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{AUT}}
|-
| 9 || 1917/18 || {{flagathlete|[[Milan Vidmar]]|Austria-Hungary}} / {{SLO}}
|-
| 10 || 1926 || {{flagathlete|[[Rudolf Spielmann]]|Austria}} 
|-
| 11 || 1927 || {{flagathlete|[[Ernst Grünfeld]]|Austria}}
|-
| 12 || 1928 || {{flagathlete|[[Ernst Grünfeld]]|Austria}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Sándor Takács]]|Hungary|1920}} 
|-
| 13 || 1929/30 || {{flagathlete|[[Rudolf Spielmann]]|Austria}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Hans Kmoch]]|Austria}}
|-
| 14 || 1931 || {{flagathlete|[[Albert Becker (chess player)|Albert Becker]]|Austria}} 
|-
| 15 || 1932 || {{flagathlete|[[Albert Becker (chess player)|Albert Becker]]|Austria}}
|-
| 16 || 1933 || {{flagathlete|[[Ernst Grünfeld]]|Austria}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Hans Müller (chess player)|Hans Müller]]|Austria}}
|-
| 17 || 1934/35 || {{flagathlete|[[Albert Becker (chess player)|Albert Becker]]|Austria}}
|-
| 18 || 1935 || {{flagathlete|[[Erich Eliskases]]|Austria}} <br> {{flagathlete|[[Lajos Steiner]]|Hungary|1920}} 
|-
| 19 || 1936 || {{flagathlete|[[Henryk Friedman]]|Poland}}
|-
| 20 || 1937/38 || {{flagathlete|[[Lajos Steiner]]|Hungary|1920}}
|}

== References ==
<references/>

{{Chess tournaments}}

[[Category:Chess memorial tournaments]]
[[Category:Chess in Austria]]
[[Category:Sport in Vienna]]
[[Category:1907 in chess]]
[[Category:1907 establishments in Austria]]
[[Category:1938 disestablishments in Austria]]
[[Category:Recurring events established in 1907]]
[[Category:Recurring events disestablished in 1938]]