Heinz Schwarz (politician, 1928)

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Heinz Schwarz received the Mérite Européen award in 1989
Candidate poster of the CDU for the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1963
CDU candidate poster for the state election in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1975
Peace without freedom is no peace, memorial plaque donated by Heinz Schwarz in 1988 in Erpel

Heinz Schwarz (born July 24, 1928 in Leubsdorf ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Schwarz is the son of a winemaker and innkeeper. After attending the Volks-, Handels- and Viticulture School, he took part in the Second World War as an air force helper in 1944/45 . From 1944 to 1947 he completed an apprenticeship as a banker at the Kreissparkasse Neuwied, worked in his parents' company from 1948 and was at times an industrial worker. He later became the owner of a company in Leubsdorf. His son Stefan Schwarz is also a politician. His other son is the publicist Thomas Schwarz .

Political party

Schwarz joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in 1947 and was managing director of the CDU district association Neuwied from 1949 to 1951. From 1952 to 1954 he was state secretary of the Junge Union (JU) in Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1955 to 1961 federal secretary of the JU Germany. From 1961 to 1964 he was regional manager of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1969 to 1980 chairman of the CDU district association Koblenz - Montabaur .

MP

Schwarz was a council member of the Leubsdorf community from 1956 to 1960 and a member of the Neuwied district council from 1956 to 1971 . He was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament in 1959, where he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and chairman of the interior committee from 1967 to 1971. In 1976 he was elected to the German Bundestag in the Neuwied constituency and resigned from his state parliament mandate. In the Bundestag, from which he resigned in 1990, he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee .

Public offices

Schwarz served as Mayor of the Office (today Verbandsgemeinde) of Bad Hönningen from 1964 to 1971 and was also honorary mayor of the city of Bad Hönningen. On May 18, 1971, he was appointed to succeed August Wolters as Minister of the Interior in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Helmut Kohl . After his election to the Bundestag, he left the government on December 2, 1976 and was replaced as Interior Minister by Kurt Böckmann .

Specialty

As the CDU announced at the 2008 Stuttgart party convention, Heinz Schwarz took part in all of the CDU's federal party conventions, starting with the founding party convention of the Federal Association in 1950. Except for him, this only applied to Günter-Helge Strickstrack, who died in 2020 .

Honors

  • 1969: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1974: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1986: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

  • Security or Freedom , Stuttgart 1974
  • Schleyer wanted scandal , 1978

Cabinet Memberships

Web links

Commons : Heinz Schwarz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schwarz wants in Bundestag , Kölnische Rundschau of January 10, 2008, accessed on April 26, 2017.
  2. ^ All party conventions since 1950. In: cdu.de. June 22, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Black, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leubsdorf