Gundula Heinatz

Gundula Heinatz (née Nehse, born 12 May 1969) is a German and Switzerland (from 2001) chess Woman International Master (1993) who won East Germany Women's Chess Championship (1990) and two times Swiss Women's Chess Championship (2014, 2018). Life Gundula Heinatz grew up as Gundula Nehse in East Germany. She learned to play chess from her father. The real training started at the BSG Chemie IW (Ilmenau) chess section. As Gundula Nehse, she went down in German chess history in 1990 in Bad Blankenburg as the last East Germany Women's Chess champion. She moved her place of residence to Switzerland and works as a doctoral specialist for information technology at the company Schweizerische Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft. The title of her dissertation at the Technical University of Dresden was Communication patterns and their application in the information landscape. Her daughter Maria is also a powerful chess player. At the Chess Mitropa Cup in 2015, mother and daughter were part of the Swiss women's chess team.