Leon Tuhan-Baranowski

Leon Tuhan-Baranowski (22 June 1907, St Petersburg – 27 April 1954, Frankfurt) was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer.

Born in Saint Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots (Tartar and Belarusian descent).

He co-operated with L’Echiquier, Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten, Die Schwalbe, Dzień Polski, Strzelec, Czas, etc.

[3] During World War II, Tuhan-Baranowski had declared Belarusian nationality and became an interpreter for the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (1941–1942).

[7] He won a prize for three-move theme (co-author A. Goldstein) in Revista Romana de Sah in 1948.