Kurt Dreyer

Kurt Dreyer was forced to emigrate from Germany because of the country's Nazi policies. He first went to Belgium on a student visa in September 1933, but had to return to Germany in March 1934 because he did not have a work permit. In November 1935 he managed to emigrate to South Africa, where he worked as a clerk, branch accountant, assistant manager and local secretary at head office for OK Bazaars in Johannesburg until 1956. In 1939, he did his military service in the Royal Light Infantry, although he did not become a South African citizen until 1943. He subsequently worked as an accounting manager, among others for Dreyer & Statham Pty. Ltd (from 1956 to 1968) and Orthopaedic Suppliers Pty. Ltd (from 1965) in Johannesburg.^[1]

Dreyer was South African Champion in 1937 (after a play-off) and 1947 (jointly with Wolfgang Heidenfeld). He took 15th at Dublin 1957 (zonal, Ludek Pachman won).^[2] and won the South African and Rhodesian open chess championships in 1969.^[1] Dreyer represented South Africa in Chess Olympiads at Munich 1958, Tel Aviv 1964, Havana 1966, and Siegen 1970.^[3]

In addition, Dreyer served as president of the Chess Federation for South African from 1953 to 1960, and was subsequently made honorary vice president. He also worked as South African chess correspondent for Chess Express, Deutsche Schachblätter, and Chess Magazine.^[1]

In 1939 he married Eva Dreyer, née Wolfes (b. 1918), with whom he had two children, Frank (b. 1943) and Kenneth Dreyer (b. 1945).

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