Johannes Minckwitz (April 11, 1843 â May 20, 1901) was a German chess player and author.
Born in Leipzig, he was the son of German classical scholar and author Johannes Minckwitz.
His best achievement was 2nd place, behind Adolf Anderssen, at Barmen 1869 (8th WDSBâÂÂCongress). He tied for 3rd-5th at Hamburg 1869 (2nd NDSBâÂÂCongress, Anderssen won); tied for 8-9th at Baden-Baden 1870 (Anderssen won); took 3rd at Krefeld 1871 (9th WDSBâÂÂCongress, Louis Paulsen won); took 4th at Frankfurt 1878 (12th WDSBâÂÂCongress, L. Paulsen won); took 11th at Leipzig 1879 (1st DSB Congress, Berthold Englisch won).
He shared 1st with Max Weiss and Adolf Schwarz at Graz 1880; tied for 3rd-5th at Braunschweig 1880 (13th WDSBâÂÂCongress, L. Paulsen won); took 8th at Wiesbaden 1880 (Joseph Henry Blackburne, A. Schwarz and B. Englisch won); tied for 7-8th at Berlin 1881 (2nd DSBâÂÂCongress, Blackburne won); took 10th at Hamburg (4th DSBâÂÂCongress, Isidor Gunsberg won); tied for 13-14th at Breslau (6th DSBâÂÂCongress, Siegbert Tarrasch won), and took 9th at Berlin 1890 (Emanuel Lasker and Berthold Lasker won).
Around 1883, he began to show symptoms of mental illness for which he was hospitalized several times. On May 15, 1901, he threw himself under an electric train, losing both his arms, and died five days later in Biebrich.
In 1865âÂÂ1876 and 1879âÂÂ1886, he was an editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung and author of Das ABC des Schachspiels (Leipzig 1879), Humor in Schachspiel (Leipzig 1885) and Der kleine Schachkönig (Leipzig 1889).