Egon Joppen | |
Country: | Germany Switzerland |
Birth Date: | 25 April 1926 |
Death Date: | 2018 |
Egon Joppen (25 April 1926 – November 2018) was a German chess player.
In 1943, Joppen won the German Junior Chess Championship. In the mid-1950s he was one of the leading chess players in West Germany. In 1952, Egon Joppen won Baden-Württemberg Chess Championship.[1] Also he three times won Hesse Chess Championships (1954, 1956, 1959).[2] Egon Joppen was awarded German National Chess Master title.
Joppen played for West Germany in the Chess Olympiad:[3]
Joppen played for West Germany in the European Team Chess Championship prelimanaries:[4]
Joppen later moved to Switzerland.