Category:Hugo Kerkau

**Hugo Kerkau**
	german carom billiards player, world champion and businessman
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Date of birth	31 December 1874; Hamburg
Date of death	15 April 1918; Berlin
Country of citizenship	German Reich;
Occupation	carom billiards player; entrepreneur;
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English: Hugo Kerkau, german carom billiards player from Berlin and world champion. He was founder of "Café Kerkau" (1901), which was located on the corner of Friedrichstraße and Leipziger Straße and the "Kerkau-Palast" (Kerkau-Palace) (1910) on Behrenstraße 48. Both were located in Berlin-Mitte. The "Kerkau-Palast" had 48 tables and was famous for chess playing also. in the first year the world-championship between Emanuel Lasker and Dawid Janowski took place here. The house has been demolished in 1994. In the basement a book was found which describes the legendary match between the chess-champions José Raúl Capablanca and Lasker in 1914 which has been believed lost.

Deutsch: Hugo Kerkau, deutscher Carambolagespieler aus Berlin und Weltmeister. 1901 gründete er auf der Ecke Friedrichstraße und Leipziger Straße das Café Kerkau. 1910 gründete er dann den „Kerkau-Palast" in dem im Erdgeschoss Schach gespielt wurde. Bereits im Gründungsjahr fand hier das WM-Spiel zwischen Emanuel Lasker und Dawid Janowski statt. Bei den Abrissarbeiten wurde eine Kladde mit den Partien aus dem WM-Kampf 1914 zwischen José Raúl Capablanca und Lasker gefunden.