Career Lipke retired early from active chess and worked as a lawyer in Halle, Saxony. He died at Osterburg, Altmark.
Achievements In 1889, he tied for 5–6th in Breslau (6th Dictionary of Scientific Biography Congress, Hauptturnier A, Emanuel Lasker won), and took 4th in Dessau. In 1892, he won in Dresden (7th Dictionary of Scientific Biography-Kongress, Hauptturnier A), and he took 2nd in Halle (Quadrangular). In 1893, he took 3rd in Kiel (8th Dictionary of Scientific Biography-Kongress, Curt von Bardeleben and Carl August Walbrodt won). At the 9th Dictionary of Scientific Biography-Kongress in Leipzig, 1894, he took 2nd, behind Siegbert Tarrasch but ahead of several established masters, including Richard Teichmann, J. H. Blackburne, Carl Walbrodt, David Janowski and Georg Marco. He also won his individual game against Tarrasch. In 1898, he tied for 8–9th in Vienna (Kaiser-Jubiläumsturnier, Tarrasch and Harry Pillsbury won).