| Helga Axt | |
| Country: | Germany |
| Birth Date: | 27 August 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Bad Ems, Germany |
| Woman International Master (1961) | |
| Fideid: | 16210557 |
Helga Axt (born 27 August 1937) is a German chess Woman International Master (1961) who three times won West Germany Women's Chess Championship (1957, 1958, 1961).
Helga Axt grew up with her grandmother in Prague with her younger sister.[1] She graduated from a hotel management school in Bad Gastein and was a good track and field athlete at the time.[2]
From 1957 to 1961 she was one of the best chess players in the West Germany. She won the West Germany Women's Chess Championship in 1957, 1958 and 1961. She was a member of the Freiburg Chess Club and a club reserve player in the 1950s. After being a teacher in Ihringen in the mid-1960s, she gave up playing chess.