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Karl Alfred Markus Schwarzmann (22 March 1912 – 11 March 2000) was a German Olympic gymnast and Fallschirmjäger during World War II. He won three gold and two bronze medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and another silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. As a Fallschirmjäger he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.〔 ==Biography== Alfred Schwarzmann joined the 13th Company of the Nuremberg Infantry Regiment on 1 April 1935 after signing up for a twelve-year period of service. He was promoted to Unteroffizier on 1 May 1935 and was a member of the Gymnastics team preparing for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won three gold and two bronze medals.〔 Schwarzmann served as an army sports instructor at the Army Sport School in Wünsdorf. From there he went to II. Battalion, 1st Parachute Regiment in Stendal on 1 January 1939 and later to Braunschweig. On 11 March 1940 he was promoted to Oberleutnant and on 1 April became commander of a machine gun platoon in the 8th Company of the 1st Parachute Regiment. On 10 May 1940 Schwarzmann and his company parachuted into the Netherlands and took a key bridge at Moerdijk. This his unit held until relief forces arrived. In the first hour of the fighting Schwarzmann was badly wounded when a bullet pierced a lung. He was treated for his wounds in Dordrecht after the Dutch capitulation.〔 Alfred Schwarzmann received both Iron Crosses on 25 May 1940 and four days later the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.〔Kurowski and Fellgiebel present contradicting dates for the Knight's Cross〕 It is very likely that Schwarzmann was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for propaganda purposes only, for he had not distinguished himself during the brief period that he was involved in the fighting. As a matter of fact, he was (within his company) the only platoon-commander not achieving the given objectives. When he seemed to succumb to his lung wound, after a strong wound fever caught him, he was quickly awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Amazingly he managed to beat the fever and fully recover after a long treatment. Notwithstanding his own knowledge of the cheaply earned awards, he didn't hesitate to flash his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross all the time, which caused him to be rejected by many of his comrades during, but particularly after the war. In the Battle of Crete Schwarzmann saw action in the Heraklion area. Promoted to Hauptmann on 27 June 1942, he led the 3rd Parachute Regiment's 8th Company and was later made company commander. From 1941 to 1942 he fought in Russia on the Eastern Front. On 15 March 1943 he became commander of the headquarters of the 7th Air Division. Afterwards he held the same position with the 1st Parachute Division. Schwarzmann was forced to enter the Luftwaffe hospital in Munich on 4 March 1944 because of his old wound. On 20 April 1945 he was promoted to Major. Schwarzmann was held prisoner of war by the British from 9 May to 29 October 1945. Aged 40, Schwarzmann competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal on the horizontal bar. His team finished fourth. In 2008 he was inducted into the Germany's Sports Hall of Fame.〔 His daughter is the former and first ''Bundestrainerin'' (national head coach) in Equestrian vaulting, international referee and renowned coach Helma Schwarzmann.〔 She is one of the most successful coaches worldwide, having won more than 30 World Championship titles in her career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Schwarzmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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