Albert Heinrich Kniest

Albert Heinrich Kniest (* 15 May 1908 in Kiel; † 8 November 1984) was a German chess composer and author.

Chess composition
Kniest learnt to play chess at the age of around 15. He became a member of the Bottrop Workers' Chess Club in 1923 and developed into a tournament player with reasonable playing strength. However, he soon turned his attention to chess composition. In 1925 he became a member of the Schwalbe association. At the end of 1925, he published his first chess exercises in the Essener Anzeiger. His favourite compositions were Wenigsteiner - chess problems with a maximum of four pieces - and fairytale chess problems. In total, he composed around 7000 chess problems. During the Second World War, he lost all records of his works before the war.

The author
Kniest published many of his own magazines. He wrote most of them by hand and also added his own drawings.

Deutsche Märchenschachzeitung - May 1931 to May 1933
Kniest's Schachbriefe - November 1942 to June 1944
Checkmate - October 1946
Diagrams and pieces
Frankfurt Notes
Caissa's cheerful underground car park with splinter pit
He also headed several problem sections in newspapers and chess journals, which were highly regarded in professional circles:

Bottroper Volkszeitung - 1934 to mid-1937 (he was succeeded by his brother Peter Kniest)
Schnatterer
Crevasse
Colourful stones
Do you know the Bible?

His life
Kniest was a miner. He graduated from the mining schools in Bottrop and Hamborn with a mining licence. He then studied engineering and became a civil engineer. His brother Peter Kniest was also a chess composer.

Source: de.wikipedia.org