Hans Schwarz (party official)
Hans Schwarz (born November 9, 1909 in Berlin , † probably September 2, 1944 near Telgárt ) was a German party functionary of the KPD . He shot the defectors and Gestapo - spy Alfred Kattner to his statement as a witness in a possible trial of former KPD chairman Ernst Thalmann prevent.
Life
Hans Schwarz, the son of a worker, completed an apprenticeship as a baker and worked as an emergency worker on the subway construction in Berlin during the Great Depression. In 1928, Schwarz joined the KPD and its youth association, the KJVD . In 1932 he received a four-month prison sentence. In 1933 he became an employee in the anti-military apparatus of the Berlin state management, the KPD's intelligence service. After a brief imprisonment in October of the same year, Schwarz was commissioned by Rudolf Schwarz to work with Kurt Granzow on a plan to kill the former liaison to the Kattner party leadership.
In February 1934 the plan was put into action. Hans Schwarz shot Kattner in his apartment in Nowawes . After the crime, he fled to the Soviet Union via Prague with the help of Leo Roth , where he was trained at the Comintern M School , an international military school, in 1934/1935 . From 1936 he was a member of the interbrigades in the Spanish Civil War and fought against the putschists around Franco . Even before the defeat of the Spanish republic, he returned to the Soviet Union and received training as a radio operator from the local military secret service GRU .
Schwarz traveled to Slovakia in 1940 , from there reported to the Soviet Union about the transport of materials and troops and prepared explosive attacks on the local infrastructure. Two years later he was caught by the Slovak security police and handed over to the German Gestapo and interrogated. His confession, together with that of Heinrich Fomferra , is said to have contributed to the arrest of the illegal radio operator Johann Wenzel in Brussels and to the destruction of the entire resistance organization Rote Kapelle .
Schwarz and Fomferra were returned to the Slovak security authorities and sentenced there to twelve years in prison for sabotage and espionage . With the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising , Schwarz was freed from Ružomberok prison and joined a partisan unit fighting the German occupiers. Black is said to have died a short time later during the Slovak National Uprising near Telgárt in the uprising area.
On November 8, 1989, a memorial stele was erected on Humannplatz in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg , which was removed after German reunification in 1990.
literature
- Black, Hans . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany: Tribute to Hans Schwarz on Humannplatz in Prenzlauer Berg , November 9, 1989
- ↑ Memorial plaques in Berlin: Hans Schwarz, 1914-1944 (as of February 16, 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German party functionary of the KPD |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: September 2, 1944 |
| Place of death | at Telgárt |