swallow
Schwalbe stands for:
- a bird of the swallow family
- different colored pigeons of the same drawing:
- a paper airplane
- Schwalbe (football) , an attempted deception by the referee
- an acrobatic exercise, see Acrobatics # Acrobatic Elements
- Shear pole for setting up a maypole , church fair tree or carnival tree
- an agent who establishes a love relationship with a male target person for the purpose of recruitment, see Romeo (agent)
The name Schwalbe stands for:
- the scooter swallow of Simson
- the Schwalbe scooter from Govecs
- a brand for bicycle, motorcycle and wheelchair tires and tubes from Ralf Bohle GmbH
- the hunter version of the Messerschmitt Me 262
- the river Jutschinka in East Prussia (German name Schwalbe )
- Schwalbe (Vereinigung) , the German association for problem chess
Ships:
- a second class gunboat of the Prussian and Imperial Navy, see SMS Schwalbe (1860)
- a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy, see SMS Schwalbe (1887)
- Schwalbe II (ship) a day trip boat on the Ruhr and on the Witten part of the Kemnader See
Schwalbe is the family name of the following people:
- Carl Gustav Schwalbe (1871–1938), university professor for cellulose chemistry
- Clemens Schwalbe (* 1947), German politician (CDU)
- Ernst Schwalbe (1871–1920), German pathologist
- Eugen Felix Schwalbe (1892–1974), German officer, most recently general of the infantry
- Gustav Schwalbe (1844–1916), German anatomist and anthropologist
- Harald Schwalbe (* 1966), German chemist
- Ingeborg Schwalbe (* 1935), German athlete
- Johann Samuel Schwalbe (1778–1845), German industrialist, pioneer of Chemnitz mechanical engineering
- Jürgen Schwalbe (* 1942), German actor, director and author
- Julius Schwalbe (1863–1930), German doctor
- Karl Gustav Friedrich Schwalbe (1770 – after 1804), German teacher and writer
- Konrad Schwalbe (1927–2004), German dramaturge, film scholar and rector
- Michel Schwalbé (1919–2012), French violinist of Polish origin
- Ulrike Schwalbe (* 1978), German triathlete
The swallow stands for
- the magazine of the German Association for Problem Chess, see Schwalbe (Association)
- the German libretto for the opera La rondine ("The Swallow") by Giacomo Puccini
See also:
Wiktionary: Schwalbe - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations