František Schubert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

František Schubert

Czech chess player

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1894

Place of Birth: Mladá Boleslav, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1940

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

František Schubert (27 April 1894, Mladá Boleslav – 19 April 1942, Lódz) was a Czech chess master. Before World War I, he took 4th at Pilsen (Plzen) 1911 (Amos Pokorný and Zárecký won), played at Böhmisch Trübau (Ceská Trebová) 1913, and took 7th at Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav) 1913 (Bohemian Championship, Karel Hromádka won).In 1915, he took 5th in Vienna (the 7th Trebitsch Memorial, Carl Schlechter won).
After the war, he won at Prague 1919 (Czechoslovak Chess Championship), took 12th in the Prague City Championship 1921 (won by Hromádka and František Treybal), won at Prague 1925 (the 2nd Kautsky Memorial), shared 6th at Prague 1926 (the 3rd Kautsky Memorial, Jan Schulz, Prokop, and Karel Skalicka won), took 9th at Scarborough 1928 (William Winter won), took 14th at Prague 1933 (the 10th Kautsky Memorial, Karel Opocenský won), and tied for 2nd-4th at Prague 1939 (Olympic qual., Jirí Pelikán won)..
In 1941, he was deported from Prague to Lódz where he was murdered in 1942.