Karl Ludwig Albert Schwarz

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Karl Ludwig Albert Schwarz (born December 14, 1871 , † January 13, 1931 ) was a German banker and patron .

Life

Karl Ludwig Albert Schwarz came from an upper-class family in Stuttgart . He was a nephew of the landscape painter Ludwig Diel . Schwarz took over his father's banking house in Stuttgart and participated in numerous economic and political activities. In 1906 he was made an honorary Royal Norwegian Consul after he had campaigned for the establishment of a German-Norwegian business association, in 1907 he founded the Deutsche Nyanza-Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft mbH together with the Kommerzienrat Heinrich Otto , which started with five small steamers took over the passenger and freight traffic on Lake Victoria . The company owned, among other things, the steamer Heinrich Otto and the Pinassen Albert Schwarz and Schwaben . He drove the construction of the Pleidelsheim hydropower plant and was a member of the Kawag Supervisory Board until his death . In Bad Mergentheim he expanded the bathing facilities, for which he was granted honorary citizenship in 1921 on the occasion of his 50th birthday. In addition, the Albertquelle in Bad Mergentheim was named after him. He was also involved in the establishment of Luftverkehr-Württemberg-AG, from 1936 Flughafen Württemberg AG.

Schwarz was also an art collector and patron of the arts. He was chairman of the Association of Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Württemberg Concert Association and the Württemberg Art Friends Association.

In the course of the economic crisis in the 1920s, his bank perished. At the same time, Schwarz suffered from a deterioration in his health. He died of heart paralysis. After his death, his collections were auctioned in Stuttgart and Cologne . Schwarz was buried in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart .

Bahaitum

Albert Schwarz and his wife Alice belonged to the Baha'i religion from 1912 ; Alice Schwarz's dentist Edwin Fischer led them to this belief. During a visit to Stuttgart in April 1913, the Schwarz couple met 'Abdul-Baha' personally. Several trips were undertaken together, including to Bad Mergentheim with a stopover in Pleidelsheim , where 'Abdul-Baha' Albert Schwarz praised Albert Schwarz for his commitment to the construction of the power plant, which Alice Schwarz later quoted in one of her books. After the religious leader's death in 1921, the couple attended a conference on his will in Haifa . Then Alice and Albert Schwarz set up the administration of the Baha'i in Germany. They became members of the first National Spiritual Council; Albert Schwarz is also chairman. Alice Schwarz acted as secretary and editor of the Sun of Truth . The couple also built a corresponding library and headed the Baha'i Congress in Stuttgart in 1924.

literature

  • Guido Ettlich: Consul Black. Banker, Bürger & Bahá'í in Stuttgart and Bad Mergentheim , Berlin: Der Erzählverlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-947831-03-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data on Heinrich Otto  in the German Digital Library
  2. ↑ Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon I, 1920, p. 357 ff. At www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de
  3. ^ Franz Diehm, History of the City of Bad Mergentheim , Bad Mergentheim 1963, p. 267
  4. ↑ a b Beate Volmari, full of tension. One hundred years of the Pleidelsheim hydropower plant. Story (s) of the king, consul and canal workers, ed. from the community of Pleidelsheim, Pleidelsheim 2015, pp. 64–67
  5. ^ Auction catalogs for the Schwarz estate  in the German Digital Library
  6. ↑ pictures of the grave on www.findagrave.com
  7. ↑ Numerous details of the religious leader's visit to Germany and portraits of the Schearz couple at www.abdulbaha-in-deutschland.de
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Karl Ludwig Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, patron of the Baha'i functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1871
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1931