| Gertrud Nüsken | |
| Country: | Germany |
| Birth Date: | 21 December 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Saxony-Anhalt, Germany |
| Death Place: | Königs Wusterhausen, Germany |
Gertrud Nüsken (née Fröhlich; 21 December 1917 – 14 August 1972) was a German chess player who four times won East Germany Women's Chess Championships (1948, 1950, 1953, 1955). She died in the Interflug plane crash near Königs Wusterhausen.[1]
Gertrud Nüsken was a mathematician. She worked in wagon construction as a structural engineer. Until his death, she was married to Friedrich “Fritz” Nüsken (1914–1970), the chief structural engineer at Waggonbau Görlitz Corporation, who in 1958 received the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic in second class for science and technology for the development of the articulated double-decker wagon.[2]
Gertrud Nüsken learned to play chess from her husband in 1946. Just two years later, in 1948 in Bad Doberan she won the 1. German women's championship 1948 in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.[3] She also was GDR Women's Chess Champion three times.
Other her top places in East Germany Women's Chess Championship were:
In 1954 Gertrud Nüsken took part in the Women's European Zonal Chess tournament. In 1955 she retired from tournament chess.
In 1959, Gertrud Nüsken won a film idea competition. The successful DEFA comedy movie Papas neue Freundin (Papa's new girlfriend) was made from her story.