1935 - 2020
Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful chess player between the mid 1950's and the late 1980's, reaching the 1971 Candidates Tournament. During his career, Uhlmann played many of the top players of the time and won the East Germany Chess Championships 11 times. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Uhlmann has received more than 65,292 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Wolfgang Uhlmann is the 117th most popular chess player (up from 132nd in 2019), the 3,918th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,716th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Chess Player.
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Among chess players, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 117 out of 374. Before him are William Lombardy, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Oscar Panno, Boris Gelfand, Boris Kostić, and Alexander McDonnell. After him are Adolf Schwarz, Carlos Torre Repetto, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Wolfgang Unzicker, Boško Abramović, and Alexander Khalifman.
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 111
1818 - 1899
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 112
1935 - Present
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 113
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 114
1887 - 1963
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 115
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 116
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 117
1836 - 1910
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 118
1904 - 1978
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 119
1800 - 1872
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 120
1925 - 2006
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 121
1951 - 2021
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 122
1966 - Present
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 123
Among people born in 1935, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 286. Before him are Pedro Manfredini, Lewis Arquette, Roberto Ferreiro, Vic Elford, Armando Picchi, and Mal Evans. After him are Sultan Ali Keshtmand, Józef Szmidt, Ben Vautier, Sandy Koufax, Hanna Krall, and Cheo Feliciano. Among people deceased in 2020, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 351. Before him are Genesis P-Orridge, Mady Mesplé, Pat Patterson, John D. Barrow, Jack Sherman, and Goran Paskaljević. After him are Claire Bretécher, Michael Gwisdek, Neda Arnerić, Inna Makarova, Saeb Erekat, and Brent Scowcroft.
1935 - 2019
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 280
1935 - 2001
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 281
1935 - 2017
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 282
1935 - 2022
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 283
1935 - 1971
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 284
1935 - 1976
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 285
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 286
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 287
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 288
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.69
Rank: 289
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 290
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 291
1935 - 2014
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 292
1950 - 2020
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 345
1931 - 2020
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 346
1941 - 2020
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 347
1952 - 2020
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 348
1956 - 2020
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 349
1947 - 2020
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 350
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 351
1940 - 2020
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 352
1942 - 2020
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 353
1953 - 2020
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 354
1926 - 2020
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 355
1955 - 2020
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 356
1925 - 2020
HPI: 47.69
Rank: 357
Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 3,918 out of 6,142. Before him are Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733), Julius Benedict (1804), Gerhard Marcks (1889), Berthold Delbrück (1842), and Jean-Marc Barr (1960). After him are Rudi Glöckner (1929), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Theo Waigel (1939), Anton Diffring (1916), Gerhard Ritter (1888), and Johan Zoffany (1733).
1746 - 1818
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 3,912
1733 - 1806
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 3,913
1804 - 1885
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 3,914
1889 - 1981
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 3,915
1842 - 1922
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 3,916
1960 - Present
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 3,917
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 3,918
1929 - 1999
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 3,919
1774 - 1850
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 3,920
1939 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 3,921
1916 - 1989
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 3,922
1888 - 1967
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 3,923
1733 - 1810
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 3,924
Among chess players born in Germany, Wolfgang Uhlmann ranks 7. Before him are Louis Paulsen (1833), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Robert Hübner (1948), Jacques Mieses (1865), Jean Dufresne (1829), and Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818). After him are Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Sonja Graf (1908), Hermann Pilnik (1914), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Carl Mayet (1810), and Boris Gulko (1947).
1833 - 1891
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 1
1896 - 1975
HPI: 50.19
Rank: 2
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 3
1865 - 1954
HPI: 49.67
Rank: 4
1829 - 1893
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 5
1818 - 1899
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 6
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 7
1925 - 2006
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 8
1908 - 1965
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 9
1914 - 1981
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 10
1807 - 1885
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 11
1810 - 1868
HPI: 44.47
Rank: 12
1947 - Present
HPI: 41.49
Rank: 13