Career
Born in Silesia (then Prussia), he was a chess pupil of Adolf Anderssen in Breslau. In 1880, he took 2nd, behind Louis Paulsen, in Braunschweig (13th WSB–Congress), and drew a match with Emil Schallopp (+2 –2 =2) in Berlin. In 1888, he shared 1st with Curt von Bardeleben in Leipzig.
He wrote a book: Riemann, Fritz: Schach-Erinnerungen des jüngsten Anderssen-Schülers.
Mit vielen Diagrammen im Text und einem Bildnis des Verfassers. de Gruyter, Berlin und Leipzig 1925.