Georg Schwarz (politician, 1896)
Georg Schwarz (born March 27, 1896 in Zwenkau , † January 12, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Schwarz, a baker by profession , took part in the First World War as a volunteer , but returned as an opponent of the war. In 1918 he became a member of the SPD , in 1919 the USPD and finally in 1920 the KPD . During the twenties, Schwarz worked in the Leutzsch iron foundry Max Jahn, whose employees elected him as chairman of the works council . In 1929 he was elected to the Saxon state parliament. From 1929 to 1933, Schwarz was also the political secretary of the KPD sub-districts of Leipzig , Flöha and Zwenkau.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Schwarz was arrested on the night of March 1st, 1933. He was imprisoned in the Hohnstein and Sachsenburg concentration camps. After his release, he helped to rebuild the now illegal KPD organization in Leipzig, of which he had been a head since 1937/1938. Schwarz joined the resistance group around Georg Schumann , Otto Engert and Kurt Kresse . From March 1944 he was co-editor of the illegally published newspaper Resistance to War and Nazi Rule . Schwarz was arrested in July 1944, sentenced to death on November 23, 1944, and executed in Dresden on January 12, 1945.
His daughter Sonja (1924–2013) was married to Alfred Kurella from 1958 .
Honors
In August 1945 a street in the Leipzig districts of Lindenau and Leutzsch, which until then had been named after the National Socialist martyr Albert Leo Schlageter , was named after Schwarz. He had lived here at number 24. On August 21, 2009 a stumbling block was laid here by the artist Gunter Demnig . In Zwenkau, too, a street in the new development area is named after Georg Schwarz, and a parallel street is named after Otto Engert.
From 1949 to 1992, today's Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark in Leipzig was called Georg-Schwarz-Sportpark . Two schools in Leipzig and one each in Borna , Grimma and Olbersdorf were named after him, as well as a steel foundry in the latter place.
literature
- Monika Zorn (ed.): Hitler's twice killed victims. West German final solution of anti-fascism in the area of the GDR. Ahriman, Freiburg i. Br. 1994, ISBN 3-89484-401-9 , p. 264.
- Black, Georg . 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 .
Web links
- Entry: Schwarz, Georg . In: Leipzig Lexicon .
supporting documents
- ^ On-site meeting on Friday in Leutzsch: A stumbling block for Georg Schwarz. ( Memento from December 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Leipziger Online-Zeitung from August 19, 2009.
- ↑ Jürgen M. Hofmann: Birthday with Goethe: An autobiography. BoD 2018, p. 47. ISBN 3-75288-256-5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and resistance fighters |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwenkau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden |