Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (10 May 1928-18 May 2013) is a German chess grandmaster who was born in Dresden. He is best known as the arbiter of several World Chess Championship matches. Also a collector of chess books and paraphernalia, he owns the largest known private chess library in the world and has a renowned collection of chess art masterpieces and chess boards and pieces from all around the globe.
Lothar Schmid played for West Germany at eleven Chess Olympiads.
In 1950, at second board at the 9th Olympiad in Dubrovnik (+7 −1 =4)
In 1952, at second board at the 10th Olympiad in Helsinki (+7 −1 =4)
In 1954, at second board at the 11th Olympiad in Amsterdam (+6 −4 =3)
In 1956, at second board at the 12th Olympiad in Moscow (+4 −2 =7)
In 1958, at third board at the 13th Olympiad in Munich (+6 −3 =4)
In 1960, at second board at the 14th Olympiad in Leipzig (+7 −2 =5)
In 1962, at third board at the 15th Olympiad in Varna (+4 −2 =2)
In 1964, at third board in at the 16th Olympiad Tel Aviv (+7 −2 =5)
In 1968, at second board in at the 18th Olympiad Lugano (+6 −0 =6)
In 1970, at second board in at the 19th Olympiad Siegen (+7 −1 =4)
In 1974, at first board in at the 21st Olympiad Nice (+5 −3 =7)
Schmid is also a well known chess arbiter, awarded the International Arbiter (IA) title in 1975.[1] He was the arbiter for the Fischer–Spassky 1972, Karpov–Korchnoi 1978, Kasparov–Karpov 1986 World Championship matches, and also Fischer–Spassky 1992 (the ‘Revenge Match’).
Source: Wikipedia
He was a wonderful player, and a gentleman.