# Georg Klaus
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{{Short description|German chess player (1912–1974)}}
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'''Georg Klaus''' (28 December 1912, [Nuremberg](/source/Nuremberg) – 29 July 1974, [Berlin](/source/Berlin)) was a German philosopher, cybernetician, [chess](/source/chess) master, and functionary.
In 1928, he started his chess career in [Nuremberg](/source/Nuremberg), playing at ''Arbeiterschachklub Nürnberg'', then ''Nürnberger Schachklub Noris''. In 1933, he won in the Franconian championships. In that time, he began to study mathematics at the [University of Erlangen](/source/University_of_Erlangen) in 1932, and became a member of the [Communist Party of Germany](/source/Communist_Party_of_Germany) (KPD). In 1933, he was arrested by Nazis, and spent two years in a Nuremberg prison and three years in the [Dachau concentration camp](/source/Dachau_concentration_camp), until 1939.[{{Cite web |url=http://www.ballo.de/zettel_182.htm |title=Harald E. Balló :: Zettel 182 - Georg Klaus |access-date=12 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208204026/http://www.ballo.de/zettel_182.htm |archive-date=8 February 2011 |url-status=dead }}]
After his releasing, he worked in a factory (''Faber-Castell bzw. Schwan-Bleistift''), and again played chess in Nuremberg (''Schachklub Noris''). During [World War II](/source/World_War_II), he took 2nd, behind [Friedrich Nürnberg](/source/Friedrich_N%C3%BCrnberg), in Regensburg in March/April 1942 (the South German championship), shared 2nd with [Hans Müller](/source/Hans_M%C3%BCller_(chess_player)), behind [Ludwig Rellstab](/source/Ludwig_Rellstab_(chess_player)), in Bad Oeynhausen in June/July 1942 (the 9th [German Chess Championship](/source/German_Chess_Championship)),[[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables13.htm Roger Paige Chess Site :: 1942] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807064131/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables13.htm |date=7 August 2007 }}] and took 4th in Bad Krynica in November/December 1943 (the 4th [General Government chess tournament](/source/General_Government_chess_tournament), [Josef Lokvenc](/source/Josef_Lokvenc) won).[[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables%2014.htm Roger Paige Chess Site :: 1943] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222064906/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables%2014.htm |date=22 February 2007 }}]
In October 1942, he was drafted into the [Wehrmacht](/source/Wehrmacht), and sent to the [Eastern Front](/source/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)) in March 1943. He fought in the [Kharkov region](/source/Kharkov_oblast) and in the [Battle of Kursk](/source/Battle_of_Kursk) in July 1943. He was injured in combat, and awarded the [Iron Cross](/source/Iron_Cross), 2nd Class.["Klaus wird für seinen Einsatz mit dem Eisernen Kreuz zweiter Klasse und dem silbernen Verwundetenabzeichen versehen" ([http://www.ballo.de/zettel_182.htm Harald E. Balló :: Zettel 182 - Georg Klaus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208204026/http://www.ballo.de/zettel_182.htm |date=8 February 2011 }}).] Then, he spent several weeks in a field hospital in Bad Blankenburg, Thuringia.
In March 1945 he was in the [Western Front](/source/Western_Front_(World_War_II)), and after [Western Allied invasion of Germany](/source/Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany), he had been taken into Allied captivity. From April to September 1945, he was kept in an American army camp (''Lager 2227'') in [Ostend](/source/Ostend), Belgium.
After his release on 2 September 1945, he returned to Nuremberg, and next to Bad Blankenburg, then the [Soviet occupation zone](/source/Soviet_occupation_zone). In February 1946, he became a political functionary of KPD and the [Socialist Unity Party of Germany](/source/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany) (SED) in Sonneberg, Thüringen. He received a doctorate of pedagogy (1948), and a [habilitation](/source/habilitation) in philosophy (1950) from the [University of Jena](/source/University_of_Jena), Thuringia. In 1953, he played in a friendly match GDR vs. Bulgaria in Sofia,[[http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.olimpbase.org%2Fother%2Ffriendlies.html OlimpBase :: Friendly matches]] and was the ''Präsident der Sektion Schach der DDR'' in 1953/54.[{{Cite web |url=http://brettspiele-schach.info/deutscher_schachbund-3.html |title=Deutscher Schachbund - Weitere Informationen |access-date=12 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721185959/http://brettspiele-schach.info/deutscher_schachbund-3.html |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}]
From 1953, he worked at the [Humboldt University of Berlin](/source/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin), and from 1959 in the [Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic](/source/Academy_of_Sciences_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic). Klaus published in 1963 a collection of papers on
"Cybernetics in Science, Technology, and Economics in the GDR." After fighting a running battle with bureaucracy in the journals from 1963 on, Klaus was asked to prepare a "Cybernetic Dictionary" as his contribution to the Seventh Congress of the SED in 1967.[{{Cite web |url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/CPE/ESAU/esau-45.pdf |title=CIA :: Intelligence Report - The Prussian Heresy: Ulbricht's Evolving System (ESAU XLVI/70) |access-date=12 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527111256/http://www.foia.cia.gov/CPE/ESAU/esau-45.pdf |archive-date=27 May 2010 |url-status=dead }}]
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