|Walter E. Lemcke| |Born||19 August 1891| |Known for||Designed
the first Olympic Torch| Walter E. Lemcke (19 August 1891 –
1955) was a German sculptor who mainly worked in bronze. He
produced numerous sculptures for the Third Reich including the
eagles holding swastikas that flanked the entrance of the
Ministry of Aviation in Berlin. He is also remembered as being
the designer of the first Olympic Torch, which carried the flame
during the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay. Several of Lemcke's
works remain today and are featured in parks and museums around
Germany. Lemcke produced numerous pieces that depicted eagles,
the national symbol used by the Third Reich. Examples of these
works include two large sculptures that featured at the newly-
built Ministry of Aviation office in Berlin.1 These eagles added
to the Nazi symbolism of the building, themselves gripping
swastikas and stood atop decorative columns.2 At the end of
World War II the sculptures were removed from what is now the
Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus. Perhap