the summer olympics in berlin were held during von tschammer's tenure as "reichssportführer". he played a major role in the structure and organization of the olympic games together with carl diem, who was the former secretary of the deutscher reichsausschuss für leibesübungen (dra). von tschammer trusted the organization of the fourth winter olympics in garmisch-partenkirchen to karl ritter von halt, whom he named president of the committee for the organization of the games. von tschammer would be later blamed by historians for enforcing a ban on non-aryans in the germany's olympic team, a fact that was condemned internationally as a violation of the olympic ethical code. but it is doubtful that he was the only one of the nsrl leaders behind that decision.