Rixi Markus

The victorious Austrian ladies' team at the 1937 World Championship: Rixi Scharfstein top left. Other members, from left: Marianne Boschan, Gertie Brunner, Ethel Ernst, Elizabeth Klauber, Gertie Schlesinger (seated).

"Rixi" Markus[1] MBE (27 June 1910 – 4 April 1992) was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation.[2] "In a 60-year career", Alan Truscott wrote in a bridge column 15 weeks after her death, "she had far more victories with partners of assorted nationalities than anyone else has ever had."[3] She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to bridge in the 1975 Birthday Honours.[4]

  1. ^ Francis, Henry G.; Truscott, Alan F.; Francis, Dorthy A., eds. (1994). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (5th ed.). Memphis, TN: American Contract Bridge League. p. 686. ISBN 0-943855-48-9. LCCN 96188639.
  2. ^ "Rixi Markus" Archived 29 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine. World Bridge Federation (worldbridge.org) [WBF]. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference truscott2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 46593". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1975. p. 7384.