title: Schwalbe
text: # Schwalbe
  
  Schwalbe (German for swallow) may refer to:
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, the first functional jet fighter
  * Raab-Katzenstein KL.1 Schwalbe, German biplane produced in the 1920s
  * Schwalbe (tire manufacturer), a brand name of Ralf Bohle GmbH
  * Simson KR 51/2 Schwalbe, a motorcycle manufactured by Simson
  * Schwalbe-class cruiser, German class of unprotected cruiser ships
     * SMS Schwalbe, lead ship of the Schwalbe class
  
  ## Medicine
  
  * Schwalbe's line, anatomical line on the interior surface of the eye's cornea, named for Gustav Schwalbe
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Die Schwalbe, a German chess composition society, and its magazine, Die Schwalbe
  * FC Schwalbe Hannover, a German rugby union club
  * Diving (association football), an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by diving to the ground
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Ernst Schwalbe (1871–1920), German pathologist
  * Felix Schwalbe (1892–1974), German Wehrmacht general
  * Gustav Albert Schwalbe (1844-1916), German anatomist and anthropologist
  * Gustav Christian Schwabe (1813–1897), German-born merchant and financier
  * Harry O. Schwalbe (1874–1935), American businessman
  * Ingeborg Schwalbe (1935), German athlete
  * Mary Anne Schwalbe (1934–2009), American university administrator and refugee worker
  * Michel Schwalbé (1919–2012), French-Polish violinist
  * Nina Schwalbe (1966), American public health researcher
  * Ole Schwalbe (1929–1990), Danish painter
  * William Schwalbe (1962), American author
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Schwalbe V [de], subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Berga / Elster
  