Background
Walbrodt"s parents, along with his older brother, moved from Wesel, Rhine Province to Amsterdam shortly before Carl August was born. At that age his father taught him to play chess.
Walbrodt"s parents, along with his older brother, moved from Wesel, Rhine Province to Amsterdam shortly before Carl August was born. At that age his father taught him to play chess.
They then moved back to the Berlin area before he was 10 years old. When they originally moved to Amsterdam, Walbrodt"s parents were very poor, but by 1881, they had acquired enough money to pay for his schooling. He tied for 1st with Curt von Bardeleben at Kiel 1893 (the 8th Dictionary of Scientific Biography Congress).
He took 11th at Hastings 1895.
Walbrodt played 15 matches from 1890 to 1898. The result of his first match, against Karl Holländer (1890), is unknown.
He was very active in giving simultaneous displays, teaching chess, and attending chess events. Walbrodt also founded two chess clubs and wrote a chess column in the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger from about September 1899 until February 1902.
According to the Oxford Companion to Chess, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the early 1890s.
He died from that disease at the age of 30.