Franz G. Jacob

{{short description|German chess player}}

Franz G. Jacob (Jakob) (1870–?) was a German chess master.

Born in Strasbourg, Alsace (around the time it was transferred from French to German control), he took 16th at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB Congress, Géza Maróczy, Harry Pillsbury and Carl Schlechter won),{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Chess Tournament Crosstables |access-date=2012-02-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archive-date=2007-07-04 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01 tied for 27-28th in the Ostend 1907 chess tournament (Masters' Tournament, Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein won),{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1907ostendab.htm |title=Ostendab |access-date=2008-11-11 |archive-date=2008-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128191043/http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1907ostendab.htm |url-status=dead }} tied for 9-12th at Düsseldorf 1908 (the 16th DSB Congress, Frank Marshall won),{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1908duesseldorf.htm |title=Duesseldorf |access-date=2008-11-11 |archive-date=2008-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128193937/http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1908duesseldorf.htm |url-status=dead }} and withdrew after round 6 at Hamburg 1910 (the 17th DSB Congress).{{Cite web |url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1910amburgo.htm |access-date=2008-11-11 | title=Amburgo 1910 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202232402/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1910amburgo.htm | archive-date=2014-02-02}}