Heinz Schlauch (13 November 1915 in
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...
– 21 February 1945 in
Niederrhein) was a German
swimmer
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who competed in the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...
.
He won the 100 m backstroke at the
1938 European Championships in London. He was killed in action during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
References
1915 births
1945 deaths
German male backstroke swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Germany
Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
German military personnel killed in World War II
Sportspeople from Gera
20th-century German people
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