Siegfried Reginald Wolf


Siegfried Reginald Wolf was an Austrian chess master who competed in top European tournaments from the 1890s to the early 1930s.
A native of Prague, Siegfried Reginald Wolf played all of his tournaments in Vienna. He took 8th in 1893; took 10th in 1897; took 2nd, behind Julius Perlis, in 1901; took 6th in 1923; took 4th in 1924; shared 1st in the 1925 Austrian Championship; took 6th in 1926; tied for 7-8th in 1926; tied for 5-7th in 1927; took 4th in 1927; tied for 13-14th in 1928, and tied for 12-13th in 1929.
Wolf represented Austria in the following Chess Olympiads:
Siegfried Reginald Wolf's career as a chess master ended at the start of the 1930s when he was in his mid-sixties. Following Hitler's 1933 rise to power in Germany and the subsequent annexation of Austria in 1938, he was able to immigrate to the British mandate of Palestine and died in the port city of Haifa two weeks after his 83rd birthday.