Career
He also competed in weightlifting. Schuhmann added a third title by winning the horse vault event. He also competed in the parallel bars, horizontal bar, pommel horse, and rings events without success.
The only extant information about his placing in those events, besides not being a medallist, is that he placed fifth in the rings competition.
The semifinals resulted in a bye for the German. In the final, he faced Georgios Tsitas of Greece.
The match went for 40 minutes before it was determined that it was too dark to continue and the bout was postponed until a second day. Schuhmann was one of nine athletes to compete in the long jump.
The only information known about his placing in the event is that he was not one of the top four.
He also placed fifth in the triple jump and in the bottom three of a seven-man field in the shot put. Schuhmann tied for fourth place in the two-handed weightlifting competition now known as the clean and jerk. He and Georgios Papasideris of Greece both lifted 90.0 kilograms.
He died in 1946 in Berlin.