Paul (Pablo) Michel (Alzenau,[1] 27 December[2] 1905 – La Plata, 14 September 1977) was a German–Argentine chess master.
In August 1936, he played for Germany at second reserve board (+8 –1 =3) in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich.
[4] In August–September 1939, he was a member of the German team at the 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires.
[5] When World War II was broke out, Michel along with all German players (Eliskases, Engels, Becker, Reinhardt) and many other participants of the Olympiad decided to stay permanently in Argentina.
[6] In 1941, he took 4th, after Gideon Ståhlberg, Miguel Najdorf and Paulino Frydman, in Buenos Aires (Bodas de Plata), took 4th, behind Najdorf, Moshe Czerniak and Hermann Pilnik, in Buenos Aires, and tied for 10-12th in the Mar del Plata 1941 chess tournament (Ståhlberg won).
In 1944, he tied for 1st-2nd with José María Cristiá in Buenos Aires (La Regence).
After the war, Pablo Michel played in Argentina and occasionally in the early 1950s in Austria.
In 1948, he finished 3rd-4th with Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, after Najdorf and Ståhlberg, in Buenos Aires (La Plata).