Harry Black
Harry Heinz Schwarz (born May 13, 1924 in Cologne , † February 5, 2010 in Johannesburg ; born as Heinz Schwarz ) was a South African anti- apartheid politician.
Live and act
Schwarz was born a German and was given the first name Heinz. He and his family were Jews. After 1933 they suffered from the persecution of the Jews by the Germans, so that his father fled abroad in 1933. In 1934, Heinz Schwarz and his mother came to South Africa via Switzerland and Italy, where their father now lived. Schwarz graduated from school there and studied law with the future President Nelson Mandela .
When Heinz Schwarz was drafted into the war against Germany, his instructor ordered the name to be changed to "Harry" so that he would not be recognized as a German.
Harry Schwarz was one of Mandela's defense lawyers in the Rivonia Trial in 1964 . Ten years later he became a Member of Parliament for the United Party . In the same year he signed the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith with Mangosuthu Buthelezi , in which a non-violent end to apartheid was demanded. In 1977 he left the United Party and became the leader of the Reform Party , which only existed for a few months and was absorbed into the Progressive Federal Party . There, too, he held several high offices. In 1991 he became the South African Ambassador to the United States .
Web links
- Goetheinstitut zu Harry Schwarz ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Madeleine Reincke, Jürgen Sorges: Cape Town and the garden route . Baedeker, Ostfildern 2008, p. 254, ISBN 3-8297-1167-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, Harry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwarz, Harry Heinz (full name); Schwarz, Heinz (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African anti-apartheid politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 2010 |
| Place of death | Johannesburg |