Adolf Schwarz (politician)

Adolf Carl Schwarz (born December 21, 1883 in Göppingen ; † August 28, 1932 in Heidelberg ) was a German politician (USPD, SPD).

Live and act

After attending elementary school, Schwarz learned the sheet metal trade in 1897 and 1901. At the turn of the century he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). When the German labor movement split into the SPD and the USPD during the First World War , Schwarz joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), whose district association in Mannheim-Mosbach he took over. After the November Revolution of 1918, Schwarz was a member of the Mannheim Workers' Council. Soon afterwards, Schwarz was appointed Minister for Social Welfare in the provisional first post-war government of the state of Baden, of which he only belonged for a few weeks, from November 10, 1918 to January 7, 1919. Then he worked as a secretary in the workers' council of the city of Mannheim.

From June 1920 to May 1924 Schwarz sat as a member of the USPD and the SPD - to which he had returned in 1922 - for constituency 33 (Baden) in the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . From 1922 to 1930 Schwarz was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD in Baden.

literature

• Jörg Schadt: The SPD in Baden-Württemberg and its history , 1979.

Web links

• Biography of Adolf Schwarz . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Biography of Adolf Schwarz . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
• Adolf Schwarz in the database of members of the Reichstag