Hans Schwarz (swimmer)

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Personal information
Surname: Hans Schwarz
Nickname (s): Hanne
Nation: Nazi stateNazi state German Empire German Empire BR Germany
German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany 
Society: Magdeburg swimming club 1896
Birthday: September 16, 1912
Place of birth: Weissenfels
Date of death: December 9, 1996
Place of death: Bad Honnef
Medal table
EM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Medals

Hans "Hanne" Schwarz (born September 16, 1912 in Weißenfels , † December 9, 1996 in Bad Honnef ) was a German swimmer .

Career

Schwarz, who learned to swim in the Saale , which flows through his hometown Weißenfels , became a member of the local swimming club Neptun as a child . At the age of 12 he became German youth champion in Munich in 1924 . Between 1927 and 1930 he learned the trade of coppersmith . In 1932 he graduated as a swimming master in Halle (Saale) and got a job at the Stadtbad Halle . In 1933 he moved to Magdeburg to the Magdeburg Swimming Club in 1896 , as he found better training conditions there. At the European Swimming Championships in Magdeburg in 1934 , he won the silver medal over the 200 meter crawl. In fourth place, he narrowly missed a medal over the 100 meters back. In the same year, Schwarz was also German champion over 100 m back in 1: 13.5 minutes. The following year he increased his time to 1: 09.7 minutes and defended his title. He was also successful over this distance in 1936 .

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he was eliminated in the interim and ended up in seventh place over 100 meters back. From 1936 to 1945, Schwarz started for the Hellas swimming club in Magdeburg in 1904 . From 1945 he worked as a physical education teacher for three years before moving from the Soviet occupation zone to Cologne in the west in 1948 . There he worked as a swimming master. Later he got jobs in the indoor swimming pool Neuwied and was also head of the university indoor swimming pool of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In Neuwied he also led the training of various swimming teams at the Neuwied water sports club .

From 1951, Schwarz competed as an aged swimmer and competed in many championships. At the age of over 80, he won the 50 and 100 meter back title at the German championships in his age group in 1992. In 1993 he won the 1500 meter freestyle. By his death, he won over 50 international titles and around 1,600 gold medals, including three at the World Senior Swimming Championships in Toronto in 1978 over 50, 100 and 200 meters back. He also won 136 titles as the German Senior Champion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Swimming - German Championships (Women - Part 1). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
  2. ^ Association chronicle. In: nwv-neuwied.de. November 6, 2014, accessed September 24, 2015 .
  3. ^ Swimming and Sportfreunde Bonn 1905 eV: German Championships Masters. (No longer available online.) In: ssfbonn.de. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015 ; accessed on September 24, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ssfbonn.de
personal data
SURNAME Black, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black, Hanne (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenfels , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1996
Place of death Bad Honnef , Germany