[1] 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.

[1] On 10 May 1940 Schwarzmann and his company parachuted into the Netherlands and took a key bridge at Moerdijk.

In the first hour of the fighting Schwarzmann was badly wounded when a bullet pierced a lung.

[1] Aged 40, Schwarzmann competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal on the horizontal bar.