Friedrich Baumbach

{{Short description|German chess player (1935–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Friedrich Baumbach | image = Baumbach friedrich 20080914 berlin simultan hauptbahnhof 2.jpg | caption = Baumbach in 2008 | country = Germany | birth_date = {{nowrap|{{Birth date|df=yes|1935|9|8}}}} | birth_place = Weimar, Gau Thuringia, Germany | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2025|4|24|1935|9|8}} | death_place = Berlin, Germany | title = {{ubl|class=nowrap|ICCF Grandmaster (1973)|FIDE Master (1985)}} | ICCFworldchampion = 1983–89 | rating = [https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4611721/chart 2131] (October 2021) | peakrating = [https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/player/Baumbach,%20Friedrich.html 2460] (July 1971) | ICCF_rating = [https://www.iccf.com/player?id=81532&tab=3 2399] (October 2021) | ICCF_peakrating = 2562 (July 1994) }}

'''Friedrich (Fritz) Baumbach''' (8 September 1935 – 24 April 2025) was a German International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion, 1983–1989. He was also East German Champion in 1970.

==Biography== Baumbach tied for second place behind Mikhail Umansky in a "champion of champions" tournament, the ICCF 50 Years World Champion Jubilee. This was a special invitational correspondence tournament involving all living former ICCF World Champions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003) |url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=39859&crosstable=1%7C50th |access-date=2026-03-05 |website=www.chessgames.com}}</ref>

He was a chemist by profession. He received his doctorate in 1966. From 2000 he worked as a freelance patent attorney.

Baumbach died in Berlin on 24 April 2025, at the age of 89.<ref>Paul Werner Wagner: [https://de.chessbase.com/post/fritz-baumbach-verstorben "Fritz Baumbach verstorben"]. chessbase.com, 5 May 2025 (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2025.</ref>

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==External links== * {{ICCF}} * {{FIDE}} * {{Chessgames player|17180}} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523154112/http://www.chessmail.com/players/baumbach.htm |title=Baumbach at Chessmail.com}}

{{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Victor Palciauskas | title = World Correspondence Chess Champion | years = 1983–1989 | after = Grigory Sanakoev }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baumbach, Friedrich}} Category:1935 births Category:2025 deaths Category:20th-century German chess players Category:Correspondence chess grandmasters Category:World Correspondence Chess Champions Category:Chess FIDE Masters Category:Sportspeople from Weimar Category:Patent attorneys