In his youth Wilfried Lange lived in Braunschweig, where he won the Lower Saxony chess championship in 1933.
He later moved to Essen, where he won the city chess championships.
In 1952, Wilfried Lange became the winner of the North Rhine-Westphalia Chess Championship.
Wilfried Lange played for West Germany in the Chess Olympiad:[1] After World War II Wilfried Lange has been invested many works in restoring German chess life.
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