Paul Schwarz (engineer)

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Paul Karl Schwarz (born November 10, 1877 in Stollberg / Erzgebirge , † October 4, 1951 in Waldheim ) was a German engineer and local politician .

Life

Paul-Schwarz-Promenade, in Berlin-Lichterfelde
Paul-Schwarz-Promenade in Berlin-Steglitz , with a memorial stone for Paul Schwarz

In the 1930s, Paul Schwarz owned a company that produced gas stoves and other household appliances. From 1920 or 1928 to 1933, as a member of the DVP, he was chairman of the Steglitz district council .

In May 1945 he agreed to take over the office of mayor of the Steglitz district . Immediately before Steglitz was handed over to the American military , he was deposed as mayor by the Soviet occupying forces on June 30, 1945 and arrested. Presumably, Schwarz was first brought to Hohenschönhausen before coming to Sachsenhausen five days later .

It remains unclear what exactly he was accused of. One report said, for example, that it was a large industrialist and that it mistreated its workers. He had actively and systematically praised the fascist government and sabotaged the implementation of the orders of the military commander of the Red Army. The indictment accused him of “having endangered the peace of the German people by spreading tendentious rumors”. None of this could be proven or even substantiated.

Paul Schwarz was one of thousands of prisoners who were handed over to the GDR authorities for trial after the dissolution of the Soviet camps in early 1950 . He was admitted to the Waldheim penitentiary and sentenced there, as part of the Waldheim trials , on May 20, 1950 by the small criminal chamber of the Chemnitz Regional Court to eight years in prison. A few months of pre-trial detention were counted towards this, but not the five years' imprisonment in Soviet camps.

Paul Schwarz, who was 72 years old at the time of his conviction, died in prison in September or October 1951. A few months after his death, on February 20, 1952, the Paul-Schwarz-Promenade in Berlin-Steglitz was named after him.

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Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The fate of the first district mayor in Steglitz after the end of the war . ( Memento of December 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 605 kB) In: Steglitzer Heimat 2/2005, p. 4
  2. ↑ a b Paul-Schwarz-Promenade. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  3. ↑ The fate of the first district mayor in Steglitz after the end of the war . ( Memento of December 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 605 kB) In: Steglitzer Heimat 2/2005, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Black, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Paul Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Stollberg / Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1951
Place of death Waldheim