Luděk Pachman
Chess grandmaster
Luděk Pachman was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany. Wikipedia
Born: May 11, 1924, Bělá pod Bezdězem, Czechia
Died: March 6, 2003 (age 78 years), Passau, Germany
Peak rating: 2520 (January 1976)