Rudolf Schwarzer

Rudolf Schwarzer (born March 3, 1879 in Koritschan , † February 26, 1965 in Munich ) was a German politician ( BVP ).

Life

Rudolf Schwarzer was born in Austria-Hungary in 1879 as the son of German citizens . After attending elementary school (1885-1893), he learned the carpentry trade from 1893 to 1896. Schwarzer then went on a hike and then worked for a few years as a carpenter's assistant in various large cities in Germany. From 1899 to 1901 he was a member of the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army . From 1905 he was the district manager of the Central Association of Christian Woodworkers.

From summer 1914 to May 1918 Schwarzer took part in the First World War with the Bavarian medical company No. 15 and 29 . During the war he was used as a stretcher and non-commissioned officer in France and was awarded various medals ( Iron Cross 2nd class, Bavarian Military Merit Cross 3rd class). After the war, Schwarzer became chairman of the southern German association of Catholic labor associations in Munich.

As a politician, Schwarzer initially worked in the Catholic Center Party , for which he became a member of the Provisional National Council in Bavaria and the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 . In 1919 Schwarzer left the center to join the newly established Bavarian People's Party. For the BVP, Schwarzer was a member of the Reichstag from June 1920 to the summer of 1933 , in which he represented constituency 24 (Upper Bavaria-Swabia). During his time as a member of parliament, Schwarzer voted, among other things, for the Enabling Act introduced by the Hitler government in March 1933 , which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

In June 1933, Schwarzer was briefly taken into " protective custody " in Munich-Stadelheim prison . After his release, he retired into private life. Until the end of the Nazi era , he lived as the head of his own real estate company in Munich. In 1944 he was again taken into “protective custody” and temporarily imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp .

After the war, Schwarzer took part in the founding of the CSU , of which he headed the Munich branch in the following years. From 1945 to 1948 he was a member of the Munich City Council. From 1945 to 1949 he sat on the supervisory board of the widows and orphans' fund of the Reich and civil service staff of the Allgemeine Lebensversicherungs AG . In 1959 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

literature

Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 176 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).

Web links

Rudolf Schwarzer in the database of members of the Reichstag
Rudolf Schwarzer in the files of the Reich Chancellery
Rudolf Schwarzer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Zehetmair / Philipp W. Hildmann: Politics from Christian Responsibility , 2007, p. 45.Barbara Fait / Alf Mintzel: Die CSU 1945-1948 , 1993, p. 1931.

personal data
SURNAME	Schwarzer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (BVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Korichan
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1965
Place of death	Munich

[1] Hans Zehetmair / Philipp W. Hildmann: Politics from Christian Responsibility , 2007, p. 45.Barbara Fait / Alf Mintzel: Die CSU 1945-1948 , 1993, p. 1931.