Karl Schwarz (politician)

Karl Schwarz (born June 3, 1882 in Obersdorf, Lebus district , † 1949 ) was a German politician ( DDP and CDU ). He was a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament and from 1948 to 1949 district administrator of the Usedom district.

Life

Karl Schwarz was born on June 3, 1882 in Obersdorf in the Lebus district. After attending primary school in Trebnitz, he moved to the Ducherow preparatory institute in 1896 to pursue a career as a primary school teacher. From 1899 to 1902, Schwarz completed the Franzburg teachers' seminar , where he continued his academic education at the University of Greifswald in the following years . After his military service, he held various rural teaching positions in the Grimmen and Greifswald districts . Schwarz passed the secondary school teacher and principal examination in Stettin . In 1912 he was given a rector's position in the seaside resort of Misdroy . In 1915 Schwarz joined the Prussian school supervisory service, first as a local school inspector, then as a district school inspector and later as a district school councilor. The National Socialists removed Schwarz from office so that he had to work as a stenographer in Berlin . After it was bombed out, he acquired a rural property in Neuhardenberg / Oderbruch. After the Second World War he was reinstated as a district school councilor for the Randow and Stargard-Nord districts.

Karl Schwarz had been politically organized in the DDP since 1918/1919, he became chairman of the Misdroy local group, later local and district chairman in Cammin / Pomerania, member of the provincial board of the DDP and of the social committee at the high presidium in Stettin. On October 29, 1945, Schwarz became a CDU member in Neubrandenburg , where he set up a local CDU group with the help of the Catholic pastor Karl Fischer. He took over the local chairmanship, after the municipal and state elections also the parliamentary group chairmanship in the city council of Neubrandenburg and a mandate in the state parliament. After Werner Jöhren, as a supporter of Jakob Kaiser , was expelled from the office of district administrator in the Usedom district by the SED and Soviets , the district council elected Karl Schwarz as his successor on February 13, 1948. He held the office until his sudden death at the end of 1949.

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• LHAS 6.11-1-300 Mecklenburg Landtag 1946–1952, personnel documents and characteristics of the departed MPs 1948–1952
• Schwabe, Klaus: State elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1946. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament from August 28 to October 20, 1996. Schwerin 1996.
• Schwießelmann, Christian: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the foundation to the dissolution of the regional association. A representation of party history. [Research and sources on contemporary history, Volume 58]. Düsseldorf 2010.

Web links

• Literature about Karl Schwarz in the state bibliography MV