Heinz Schweizer

German bomb disposal operator

Heinz Schweizer (18 July 1908 Berlin – 5 June 1946 Biesenthal) was a German officer in the Luftwaffe of the Wehrmacht, last in the rank of Hauptmann.

From about 1940, Schweizer belonged to a house demolition and bomb disposal command (Sprengkommando) in Düsseldorf-Kalkum.For his work, Schweizer was stylized by the Nazis as the hero of bomb disposal saving life and described by the propaganda press as a "man with nerves of steel", but near the end of World War II, he saved around 100 to 150 political prisoners in forced labour from certain death interned at a detention subcamp near Düsseldorf.