Albert Schwarz (politician)

Albert Schwarz (born September 25, 1876 in Leipzig , † July 22, 1929 in Heidenau ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1919 to 1921, Schwarz was Minister of Economics for the Free State of Saxony .

Life

Schwarz was born in Leipzig in 1876 as the son of a goods floor worker. After leaving school, he completed training as a metal worker and before the turn of the century he joined the social democratic labor movement. He attended the Leipzig Workers 'Education Institute and from September 1907 was managing director of the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) in Heidenau near Dresden .

In the early summer of 1919, Schwarz set up a state office for the common economy , which promoted the further expansion of the efficient state economic complex in Saxony. He was also a German expert on international labor law during the peace negotiations in May 1919 in Versailles . Schwarz served briefly from November 15, 1918 to January 21, 1919 as the People's Commissioner for Labor and Welfare for Saxony, which had been declared a "social republic", and in the post-war period from January 21, 1919 to April 30, 1921 as Minister of Economics of the Free State of Saxony .

Schwarz resigned from the Saxon ministerial office because of pulmonary tuberculosis and, after his recovery, concentrated more on parliamentary work in the state parliament . As a critic of the social democratic-communist cooperation of 1923, Schwarz also condemned the government of the grand coalition with bourgeois forces, which had been entered into by parts of the SPD parliamentary group from January 1924. A purely social democratic reform cabinet (as in 1920–1922 / 23) remained his political ideal. Due to his parliamentary experience, Schwarz was proposed by the SPD for the office of the Saxon state parliament president in 1926 and elected by the state parliament. Schwarz held this office until a few weeks before his death.

The Heidenau air bath , which was built between 1922 and 1925 with his help and advice, has had his name since 1946, after a monument erected here in honor of the former Saxon Minister of Economics and State Parliament President was destroyed by the National Socialists in 1933. In 2000 the monument was re-erected by the city of Heidenau and the operator of the outdoor pool.

literature

• Mike Schmeitzner / Michael Rudloff: History of Social Democracy in the Saxon State Parliament. Presentation and documentation 1877–1997 , p. 214 f.
• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 59f.
• Josef Matzerath: Schwarz, Albert . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the city of Heidenau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Page 3  
2. ^ History - Albert-Schwarz-Bad Heidenau. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .