Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. [1] German male gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics except 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932. Additionally Germany was banned from participating in the 1948 Summer Olympics. [2] At the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympic Games athletes from East and West Germany competed as the United Team of Germany. [3] From 1968 through 1988 East Germany and West Germany competed separately. Athletes representing East Germany and West Germany are not included on this list.
Fabian Hambüchen and Andreas Toba have represented Germany at the Olympics the most with four appearances; Andreas Wecker also competed in four Olympics although he represented East Germany in 1988 and Germany at his three subsequent Olympic Games. Marcel Nguyen and Lukas Dauser have each represented Germany at three Olympic Games.
The House Order of Hohenzollern was a dynastic order of knighthood of the House of Hohenzollern awarded to military commissioned officers and civilians of comparable status. Associated with the various versions of the order were crosses and medals which could be awarded to lower-ranking soldiers and civilians.
Germany was the host nation and top medal recipient at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. 433 competitors, 389 men and 44 women, took part in 143 events in 22 sports.
The Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille is an award by the German Institute for Inventions in memory of Rudolf Diesel for inventions and the entrepreneurial and economical implications accounting to the laureate. Since 1953 the award has been presented yearly until 1969 and then irregularly every two or three years.
The Villa Romana Prize, German: Villa-Romana-Preis, is an art prize awarded by the Deutscher Künstlerbund. It was established in 1905 and is the oldest German art award. The prize consists of a one-year artistic residence in the Villa Romana, a nineteenth-century villa on the Via Senese in the southern outskirts of Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy.
Bayerischer Poetentaler is a Bavarian literary prize of the writers guild Münchner Turmschreiber.
Andreas Toba is a German gymnast. He is a four-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games.
The Germany men's national artistic gymnastics team represents Germany in FIG international competitions.