Ernst Schwarz (politician, 1886)

Ernst Schwarz (born January 18, 1886 in Landsberg / Warthe , † May 29, 1958 in Twickenham ), pseudonym Ernst Thiede , was a German communist politician.

Life

After attending grammar school in his hometown and in Berlin , Schwarz attended universities in Grenoble , Bonn and Berlin and completed his studies with a doctorate . During the First World War , Schwarz was briefly a soldier and then taught as a study assessor . Without prior ties to the labor movement , he joined the SPD after the November Revolution in Chemnitz in 1918 , where he was entrusted with the control of the police during the suppression of the Kapp Putsch in 1920. Radicalized by the events, Schwarz joined the USPD a little later , took on the post of district secretary in Kiel and joined the left wing of the party with the KPD at the end of the year .

Here he became District Secretary for Hessen-Nassau at the beginning of 1921 , had to go into hiding after the March action and fled to Berlin, where he was arrested at the end of 1921 and subsequently held in Kassel for several months . In October 1922 Black was that within the KPD now for the "left" wing belonged to a job as a teacher to compete in Berlin, while serving as a member of the party leadership of the district Berlin-Brandenburg. With the installation of the “left” party leadership around Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow in 1924, he became a full-time party functionary and was entrusted with the management of the party district of Thuringia, which was dominated by the “right” wing around the former party leaders Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer . In May and again in December 1924, Schwarz was elected to the Reichstag for the KPD .

When wing battles broke out again in the KPD in 1925, Schwarz belonged to the “ultra-left” wing and began, for example, to criticize the Soviet Union as a counterrevolutionary state ; he was released from his party functions under Fischer and Maslow and at the end of May 1926 from the new party leadership around Ernst Thälmann excluded from the party. Together with Karl Korsch , who was also excluded , he initially formed the group decidedly left , but fell out a little later with Korsch and approached the anti-parliamentary KAPD , which he did not join because he had his Reichstag mandate (which he was a member of the parliamentary group Left Communists perceived) should have resigned.

After losing his mandate in the Reichstag in 1928, Schwarz returned to teaching as a teacher and moved away from his previous political positions; he was close to the Paneuropean movement and was active in promoting Franco-German understanding . After the takeover of the NSDAP Black fled in 1933, first to France and then to Cuba and Mexico in 1937 in the United States and took in 1944 to US citizenship. Two years before his death he moved to Germany, where he settled in Bad Godesberg . He died in England while traveling.

Works

• German-French school exchange (Echange interscolaire) . Langensalza 1930

literature

• Black, serious . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945. 2., revised. and strong exp. Edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

Web links

• Ernst Schwarz in the database of members of the Reichstag