Fritz Hermann Schwob

Fritz Hermann Schwob (born September 13, 1891 in Breslau , † November 12, 1956 in Berlin (-West)) was a politician ( center , CDU in the Soviet occupation zone ), a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and minister for labor and social affairs in the state of Brandenburg .

Fritz Schwob studied economics and graduated with a degree in economics. Before 1933 he was active in the center. From 1922 to 1933 he was a member of the Provincial Committee Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia , deputy member of the Prussian State Council and deputy authorized representative to the Reichsrat .

After the National Socialists seized power, it was no longer possible to continue political work. He therefore worked as a freelancer in business.

After the Second World War he was one of the founders of the CDU in Brandenburg. He was appointed by the occupation authorities as head of the Jüterbog tax office . In the Brandenburg state elections in 1946 , he was elected to the state parliament for the CDU.

From December 20, 1946 to June 23, 1950, Fritz Schwob was State Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the Steinhoff and Jahn cabinets . In 1948/49 he also acted as a member of the expanded plenum of the DWK , the then central economic and political authority of the Soviet occupation zone and thus a forerunner of the government of the GDR.

After the election, the LDPD and CDU had a majority in the state parliament . In order to be able to implement the transformation of the entire Soviet Zone into a socialist state, there was strong pressure on the MPs and massive manipulation by the SMAD . In 1947 the SMAD banned 11 and in 1948 38 motions from the democratic parliamentary groups.

Due to the progressive phasing of the CDU and the country's authorities the leeway Schwob became increasingly smaller. On February 3, 1950, Fritz Schwob had to give up his ministerial office at the request of SMAD. The occasion was a speech that Schwob had given in Cottbus and in which he criticized the development in the Soviet Zone. He also had to give up his state parliament mandate and his post on the CDU state executive committee in February 1950. Karl Grobbel was succeeded as minister .

To avoid arrest, Fritz Schwob fled to West Berlin on the night of February 4, 1950 and became involved in the CDU in exile . After he died at the age of 57, he found his final resting place in the cemetery of the St. Matthias community in Berlin .

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