Christian "Blacky" Schwarzer (born 23 October 1969) is a now-retired professional German handball player and present-day coach.

As a member of the Germany men's national handball team, he won the world championship in 2007 and the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics.

While playing for FC Barcelona Handbol from 1999 to 2001, the German handball player of the year 2001, won the Spanish Championship, the Copa del Rey de Balonmano and the EHF Champions League in 2000.

Since 2001, he has played for TBV Lemgo, with which he won the DHB-Pokal in 2002, the Handball-Bundesliga in 2003 and the EHF Cup in 2006.

[citation needed] He is considered part of the Lemgo 'golden generation' together with Daniel Stephan, Volker Zerbe, Florian Kehrmann and Stefan Kretzschmar, who won the European Championship together.