Edith Keller-Herrmann

Who was Edith Keller-Herrmann?

Edith Keller-Herrmann was a German woman chess master. She was born in Dresden.

In August 1939, Keller, along with Klaus Junge, Wolfgang Unzicker, Rudolf Kunath and Karl Krbavac, played in Jugendschachwoche Fürstenwalde near Berlin. During World War II, she won the second German Women's Championship at Bad Oeynhausen 1942. In the next German Women's Championship, she took third place, behind Gertrud Jürgens and Maja Schlemmer, at Vienna 1943, and tied for seventh-eighth at Bad Krynica 1943.

After the war, Keller-Hermann was the German Women's Champion in 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952 and 1953, and the Eastern German Women's Champion in 1950, 1952, 1956, 1957 and 1960.

In 1949/50, she competed in the Women's World Championship tournament in Moscow, tying for fifth-seventh place. In 1951, she tied for 11-12th in Dortmund but drew with Efim Bogoljubow and won games against Rossolimo and Puc. In 1952, she tied for fourth-sixth in Moscow. In 1955, she took third place in Moscow. In 1959, she tied for fourth-fifth in Plovdiv.