Karl Helling

Who was Karl Helling?

Karl Helling was a German chess master.

In 1928, he shared 1st with Kurt Richter in the Berlin City Chess Championship, and won a play-off match for the title against him. He also won the Berlin-ch in 1932. Helling represented Germany in the 4th Chess Olympiad at Prague 1931.

In other tournaments, he tied for 7-10th at Chemnitz 1925, tied for 5-6th in the Berlin-ch 1927, took 5th at Berlin 1928; tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Richter, at Wiesbaden 1928; tied for 5-6th at Leipzig 1928, took 9th at Berlin 1928, tied for 4-7th at Duisburg 1929. Helling won, ahead of Salo Flohr, at Zwickau 1930; won ahead of Ehrhardt Post and Richter, at Berlin 1930; and took 2nd, behind Isaac Kashdan, at Berlin 1930.

In 1931, he lost a short match to Gösta Stoltz in Berlin, tied for 2nd-4th, behind Herman Steiner, in Berlin, tied for 4-6th at Swinemünde, and took 4th in Berlin. Then he took 5th at Berlin 1932, took 3rd in the Berlin-ch 1933, took 10th at Bad Aachen 1933, and tied for 5-9th at Bad Pyrmont 1933. He tied for 8-9th at Dresden 1936, took 4th in the Berlin-ch 1937, and tied for 6-7th at Berlin 1937.