Schwalbe

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Schwalbe (German for swallow) may refer to:

• 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

• Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, the first functional jet fighter
• Schwalbe-class cruiser, German class of unprotected cruiser ships
• SMS Schwalbe, three ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian Navies

• Schwalbe's line, anatomical line on the interior surface of the eye's cornea, named for Gustav Schwalbe

• 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

• 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

• Schwalbe V, subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Berga / Elster