Alfred Schwarzmann

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Alfred Schwarzmann at the 1936 Olympic Games
Sports press festival in Kiel's Ostseehalle in 1951, from left: Rudi Gauch , Alfred Schwarzmann and Jakob Kiefer

Alfred Schwarzmann (born March 23, 1912 in Fürth ; † March 11, 2000 in Goslar ) was a German gymnast and major in the Air Force and knight's cross during World War II .

Schwarzmann became three times Olympic champion at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin : in the horse jump, in the all- around event and in the all- around event with the German team. He also won bronze medals on the horizontal bar and parallel bars at these Olympic Games. In 1952 he won the silver medal in high bar gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Schwarzmann was voted German gymnast of the century.

Life

Alfred Schwarzmann was the son of the Fürth merchant Georg Schwarzmann, head gymnast of TV 1860 Fürth, and Lina Sorger. He had a sister, Helene. Schwarzmann had been a soldier in the Reichswehr since 1929 .

He achieved his first regional success in 1930 at the Bavarian State Gymnastics Festival as a winner in the all-around competition. At the German Gymnastics Championships in Essen in 1931 he was the youngest participant in eleventh place, and at the German Gymnastics Festival in Stuttgart in 1933 he was fourth in the twelve fight .

He became German champion in the all-around competition at the German Gymnastics Championships in Dortmund in 1934 . Since then, Schwarzmann has been part of the national selection team. In 1935 he took part in the gymnastics of the Reichsheer-Deutsche Turnerschaft as a member of the army.

He achieved his greatest successes at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, when he was one of the most successful Olympians. For his success, he was promoted to lieutenant as a professional soldier and gymnastics and sports teacher at the Army Sports School in Wünsdorf .

In 1938 Schwarzmann won three more German championship titles in Karlsruhe, in all-around competition, jumping and on the horizontal bar.

During World War II he was u. a. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on May 29, 1940 as first lieutenant in the reserve and platoon leader in Parachute Regiment 1 . By the end of the war he was promoted to major in the reserve. He was used, among other things, in the conquest of the Netherlands and Crete as well as on the Eastern Front.

From 1946 to 1947 Schwarzmann was a gymnastics teacher at MTV Braunschweig . In 1948 he came to Goslar, where he was a sports teacher at the Ratsgymnasium Goslar . At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki he took part again and again won a silver medal, this time on the horizontal bar. He was voted the German gymnast of the century.

Plaque in honor of Schwarzmann in the Fürth pavement

His daughter is the former and first national vaulting trainer, international judge and renowned instructor Helma Schwarzmann . With more than 30 world championship titles, she is one of the most successful trainers worldwide.

For winning the silver medal in horizontal bar gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, he was awarded the silver laurel leaf . For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted into the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History in 1988.

In 2008 he was accepted ( posthumously ) into the Hall of Fame of German Sports .

literature

  • Stefan Jordan:  Schwarzmann, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 31 ( digitized version ).
  • Alfred Schwarzmann , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 13/2000 from March 20, 2000, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Karl Behrend (Ed.): Perfected gymnastics - Alfred Schwarzmann , Berlin 1937.
  • Schwarzmann, Alfred. In: Adolf Schwammberger: Fürth from A to Z. A history dictionary. Fürth: Self-published by the city of Fürth, 1968, p. 335
  • Swantje Scharenberg : Alfred Schwarzmann - A “turner” regarded as a sportsman. In: C. Vivier, J.-F. Loudcher, P. Dietschy, J.-N. Renaud (Ed.), Sport et idéologie - sport and ideology . (pp. 53-61). Besançon: Burs 2004.
  • Swantje Scharenberg : The Fürth century gymnast Alfred Schwarzmann - on his 100th birthday. In: Fürther Geschichtsblätter, 4/2012, pp. 99–122

Web links

Commons : Alfred Schwarzmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Badische Presse of March 7, 1938 Online ; See also NDB online, accessed: September 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 696. See also Badische Presse from June 4, 1940 online .
  3. ^ Kurt Hoffmeister : Masters and medals. Braunschweig Olympic Champion, World, European, German Champion 1946-1986 , Braunschweig 1986, p. 10
  4. ↑ Cigarettes during the breaks . In: Der Spiegel 31/1952 of July 30, 1952. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ Sports report of the federal government (Bundestag printed matter 7/1040) (PDF; 1.7 MB) In: bundestag.de . German Bundestag . 81. September 26, 1973. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzmann, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2000
Place of death Goslar