Paul Baender
Male, Deceased Person
1906 – 1985
Who was Paul Baender?
Paul Baender, Spanish: Pablo Baender was a German–Bolivian chess master and functionary.
Born in Rosdzin, Upper Silesia, he moved to Görlitz in 1921. When Nazis came to power in 1933, he being a Jew fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia. In November 1937, he emigrated to La Paz, Bolivia. Baender played for Bolivia in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939.
After World War II, he came back to Germany in 1947. He became a communist politician in German Democratic Republic, and also the President of the GDR Chess Federation until 1953. He was arrested on 15 December 1952 during an anti-Semitic campaign. After Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech to the delegates to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, he was freed in 1956.
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