Wilhelm Schwarz (politician, 1887)

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Wilhelm Schwarz (born December 19, 1887 in Neudenau ; † May 18, 1966 ) was a German politician. From 1930 to 1933 he belonged to the state parliament of the Republic of Baden for the Center Party and from 1946 to 1953 to the district council for the CDU . He was mayor of Mosbach from 1945 to 1954 , where he was made an honorary citizen in 1957 .

Life

Schwarz was born the seventh child of a Wagnerian. After leaving school, he completed an apprenticeship at the Eiermann printing company in Mosbach from 1902, where the center newspaper Mosbacher Volksblatt was also published. In 1905 he completed his apprenticeship with the journeyman's examination, a little later he was on a tour of companies in Pforzheim , Heidelberg and Karlsruhe . From 1907 to 1909 he was in the military in Karlsruhe. At that time he was already making an appearance as a speaker for the Center Party and the Volksverein for Catholic Germany . After returning to his apprenticeship in Mosbach, Schwarz became chairman of the Gutenbergbund in 1910 , an association of central book printers. In 1912 he completed a two-month economic training course at the Volksverein, whose office in Lauda for northeastern Baden he headed until the beginning of the First World War . He spent the war years as a soldier, after being wounded in 1918, shortly before the end of the war, he returned to Mosbach, where he married the daughter of his teacher on November 30, 1918.

After the First World War, Schwarz took over the people's office in Mosbach and was elected Mosbach's youngest city councilor in 1919. In 1922 he accepted a position as administrative board clerk for the city of Mosbach. Little is known about his activities within the Baden Center Party in the 1920s, but until 1930 he had enough reputation to be recognized for the late party leader Dr. Schofer to move up to the state parliament of the Republic of Baden . After the National Socialists came to power, his political career temporarily ended at the local and state level. During the time of National Socialism, Schwarz worked as an insurance agent.

As a politically unaffected person, Schwarz was appointed mayor of Mosbach on June 1, 1945 by the American military government. He was one of the co-founders of the CDU local group and held the district chairmanship until 1950. In 1946 he was a member of the constitutional state assembly in Württemberg-Baden for the CDU , then until 1953 as the CDU parliamentary group chairman of the district council. In January 1954, he was defeated in the Mosbach mayoral election to the applicant Werner Tarun , who was supported by the free voters, and then retired. On his 70th birthday, Schwarz was awarded honorary citizenship in Mosbach and the Federal Cross of Merit.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of death according to Josef Weik: The members of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg 1946 to 2003. 7th edition. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-923476-03-5 , p. 302

literature

  • Karl Heinz Neser: The Mosbach honorary mayor Wilhelm Schwarz (1887–1966) , in: Mosbacher Hefte 15 , Stadt Mosbach 2005, pp. 209–215.

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personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Neudenau
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1966