Heinrich Schwartze

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Emil Heinrich Schwartze (born September 22, 1903 in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel , † August 28, 1970 in Leipzig ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and politician ( SED ).

Life

Heinrich Schwartze was the son of a factory director. He attended the Realgymnasium Berlin-Tempelhof and graduated from high school in 1924. At the University of Berlin he studied Protestant theology and philosophy until 1928 , but failed in language tests. In the summer of 1928 he moved to Lippe and joined the Religious Socialists and the SPD there . From 1930 to 1932 he was the only pastor of the small free church in Lippische Volkskirche . In 1932/33 he worked as a funeral orator in Berlin.

In 1934 he was accepted into the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Mecklenburg under the German Christian regional bishop Walther Schultz . He was appointed vicar in Kratzeburg and in 1936 pastor in Demern (today part of Königsfeld (Mecklenburg) ). His appointment was by bypassing the responsible examination board. In 1938 he was appointed regional pastor for regional church news and head of the news office and was thus the press spokesman for regional bishop Schultz. In 1938 he also became assistant preacher , in 1940 a representative of the monastery pastor and in 1941 de facto head of the Bethlehem monastery in Ludwigslust - but without being formally appointed provost of the monastery. The conflict with Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt about the confiscation of the monastery and its conversion into a district hospital led to Schwartze's expulsion from Ludwigslust by the Gestapo . From 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and at the beginning of 1945 he was still an officer candidate .

After his release from a short English captivity, he was again (acting) director of the Bethlehem Abbey.

From October 1945 he was again a member of the SPD and in 1946, after its compulsory union with the KPD, a member of the SED. In 1946 he was chairman of the Ludwigslust city assembly, chairman of the cultural association for the democratic renewal of Germany in Ludwigslust and district chairman of the National Front . From 1946 to 1952 he was a member of the Mecklenburg Landtag as a member of the SED and then until 1954 of the Schwerin District Assembly. He continued to work as a journalist and from 1946 was editor of Korrespondenz Kultur und Politik .

In May 1950, the Mecklenburg Oberkirchenrat and regional bishop Niklot Beste suggested that he resign from his office in the monastery. Since Schwartze refused, he was recalled as provisional pastor on June 15. The resistance of Schwarzte, the superior Dela Bruhn, who was connected to him, and their support from the party and the state lasted until early 1951. Intensive negotiations in Schwerin and Berlin at the beginning of 1951 led to the end of state support for Schwartze's position in the monastery. As a result, Schwartze applied for his discharge from church service on February 1, 1951, waiving his ordination rights. Oberin Bruhn resigned at the same time.

After retiring from church service, he first became full-time state and district secretary of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . In June 1954 he moved to Leipzig, became a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, and later took on a lectureship in history and ethics. As a member of the institute's SED party leadership, he was actively involved in the forced retirement of Ernst Bloch .

He later became head of the Institute for the Training of Citizenship Teachers at the University of Leipzig .

Fonts

  • About the ethics of Immanuel Kant. In: Festschrift Ernst Bloch for his 70th birthday. Ed. ROGropp, Berlin: Deutscher Verl. Der Wissenschaften 1955, pp. 281–294
  • The problem of freedom in the light of scientific socialism. Conference of the Philosophy Section of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. 8-10 March 1956. Minutes. [Contrib. by Ernst Bloch, Heinrich Schwartze, a. a.]. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1956
  • Fight for the Volkskirche in Lippe. Portrait of a German regional church around 1930 . Mannheim: Publishing house of the religious socialists 1930. 34 p. (Writings of the religious socialists, 13)

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9267 .
  • Ulrich Peter: Aurel von Jüchen: (1902–1991); Möhrenbach-Schwerin-Vorkuta-Berlin; a pastor's life in the century of dictatorships. Schwerin: Stock & Stein 2006 ISBN 978-3-937447-28-5 , pp. 164-171

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ So Grewolls, after Peter (Lit.), p. 169, on August 20, 1967
  2. ↑ There is no evidence of illegal political and church-political activity , as postulated later in the handbook for the Mecklenburg state parliament and, following it, WWW-MV, see Peter (lit.), p. 167
  3. ↑ Harald Jenner: From the middle. 150 years of Bethlehem Abbey. Ludwigslust 2001, pp. 74–80: The Schwartze case
  4. ↑ Peter (Lit.), pp. 168f .; See also Schwartze's contribution to the discussion at the culture conference of the district leadership of the SED Leipzig The Illusion of the Third Way in New Germany on October 15, 1957
personal data
SURNAME Schwartze, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartze, Emil Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and politician (SPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1970
Place of death Leipzig