Bernhard Schwarz (doctor)

Bernhard Schwarz as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Bernhard Schwarz (born March 19, 1897 in Borken near Bartenstein (East Prussia) ; † September 30, 1971 in Osnabrück ) was a German agricultural engineer . Among other things, Schwarz was a lecturer in animal breeding at the University of Königsberg .

Live and act

Black was the son of a teacher. After he was first taught at home, he attended the humanistic high school Bartenstein from 1907 to 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, most recently in the rank of lieutenant in the reserve.

From 1919 to 1922 Schwarz studied agriculture at the Albertina University in Königsberg, which he completed with a diploma and doctorate. From 1922 to 1924 he worked as an agricultural officer on the property of Balow-Lugoven. From 1926 to 1927 he was head of the agricultural experimental ring Flatil in Weilburg.

From 1927 to 1936, Schwarz was a lecturer in animal breeding at the college for practical farmers in Elbing . He then acted as Staff Leader II of the East Prussian Peasantry until 1943.

In 1943, Schwarz was named Dr. phil. habil. appointed lecturer for animal breeding with assignment to the natural science faculty of the University of Königsberg. During the Second World War , Schwarz took part as a transport officer in the staff of general transport in Italy.

After the Second World War, Schwarz was questioned as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials .

In the 1950s, Schwarz was the head of the agricultural school in Friedeburg, East Frisia, as chief agricultural officer.

Fonts

• Studies on the value of geological-agronomic maps for practical agriculture. (With special consideration of the circumstances on Blatt Bartenstein) , 1921. (Dissertation)

literature

• Fritz Gause : East Prussia. Achievement and Fate , 1958, p. 350.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the Ostpreußenblatt of October 16, 1971, p. 14.
2. ↑ Der Biologe , Vol. 12, 1943, p. 218.