Ernst Schwarcz

Ernst Schwarcz (born July 15, 1923 in Vienna ; † October 10, 2008 ibid) was an Austrian publisher, author and pacifist. He was honorary chairman of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR - International Fellowship of Reconciliation).

Ernst Schwarcz lived in Sweden from 1939, a year after the annexation of Austria and the year of his forced emigration with a Kindertransport , until 1946 . There he discovered the importance of the idea of ​​peace and, at the age of 20, took part in training courses for the material and spiritual reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War .

In 1946 he consciously returned to Austria. First as part of the "International Civil Service for Peace" and later as head of Sensen-Verlag Vienna, he campaigned for peace throughout his life. As a Quaker he was committed to the ideal of nonviolence. As honorary chairman of the International Federation of Reconciliation, he took part in practical peace work until his death.

In his publishing house he not only published authors such as the two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling ("Life or Death in the Atomic Age") and Richard Gregg ("The Power of Nonviolence", one of the classics of non-military struggles), the American Quaker study "Says it den Mächtigen "), but also his own texts (" More security without weapons - The defense of Austria through nonviolent resistance "(1976). Ernst Schwarcz published his last book in 2005 with the title Turn of Time , which deals with the changing dangers of today by the continued existence and the resurgence of nuclear weapons employed. the book subtitle Either we succeed mankind to abolish all wars or will succeed in the wars to abolish mankind presses were, the conflict between a freely chosen life's mission and gespürter hopelessness that Ernst Schwarcz always difficult oppressed .

Schwarz was buried at the Neustifter Friedhof in Vienna.

Works

• Ernst Schwarcz: A turning point . Agenda Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89688-264-3 , ISBN 978-3-89688-264-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Schwarcz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E-circular of the meeting center for active nonviolence , issue 739, accessed on October 12, 2011.
2. ↑ Online presence of the Intern. Reconciliation Union - Austrian branch. Honorary chairman of the branch.
3. ↑ Online presence of the Intern. Reconciliation League - German Branch ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Book review at the turn of the century .