Career
A native of Prague (until 1918, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bohemia), Siegfried Reginald Wolf played all of his tournaments in Vienna. Wolf represented Austria in the following Chess Olympiads:
In 1927 at fourth board in the 1st Chess Olympiad in London (+2 –2 =7);
In 1928 at fourth board in the 2nd Chess Olympiad in The Hague (+3 –3 =6);
In 1930 at first reserve board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad in Hamburg (+4 –2 =3). Siegfried Reginald Wolf"s career as a chess master ended at the start of the 1930s when he was in his mid-sixties.
Following Hitler"s 1933 rise to power in Germany and the subsequent annexation of Austria in 1938, he was able to immigrate to the British mandate of Palestine (which became Israel in 1948) and died in the port city of Haifa two weeks after his 83rd birthday.
