Werner Schwarz (politician, 1900)

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Werner Schwarz (center) at a reception for Thai politicians, 1959

Michael Carl Werner Schwarz (born January 21, 1900 in Hamburg ; † September 2, 1982 at Gut Frauenholz near Bad Oldesloe ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1959 to 1965 he was Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry .

Life and work

Werner Schwarz was born in 1900 as the son of a businessman in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst . After attending grammar school in Hamburg-Bergedorf , he went to business school in Hamburg in 1917. In 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He then graduated from 1918 to 1922 agricultural training and studied from 1922 to 1925 Agriculture . Since 1926 he has been an independent farmer at Gut Frauenholz. From 1948 to 1959 Werner Schwarz was second state chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Farmers 'Association and at the same time a member of the Presidium of the German Farmers' Association.

Werner Schwarz is the father of the Schleswig-Holstein State Minister Henning Schwarz , who was Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein in 1987/1988 and thus the grandfather of the Minister for Justice, Europe, Consumer Protection and Equality of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Sabine Sütterlin-Waack . Via another son Günther (1928–2014), who was mayor of the municipality of Rethwisch (Stormarn) from 1987 to 1994 , he is the grandfather of the incumbent Vice President of the German Farmers' Association Werner Schwarz.

Political party

Schwarz had been a member of the CDU since 1952.

MP

From 1953 to 1965, Schwarz was a member of the German Bundestag . He has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Stormarn constituency .

Public offices

Werner Schwarz (left) with his Burmese counterpart Saw-Hla-Tun, 1961

After Heinrich Lübke was elected Federal President , Schwarz was appointed Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests on October 14, 1959 in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . He initially retained this office under Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and then resigned from the Federal Government on October 26, 1965 after the federal election in 1965 .

See also

Web links

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

supporting documents

  1. ^ Register office Hamburg 21, birth certificate 1900/160.
  2. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/region/stormarn/article132326612/Trauer-um-Rethwischs-frueheren-Buergermeister-Guenther-Schwarz.html
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1982
Place of death Gut Frauenholz near Bad Oldesloe