Ernst Schwarz (politician)

Ernst Schwarz (politician)

Ernst Schwarz (Born 28 January, 1886 in Landsberg / Warta; † May 29, 1958 at Twickenham), was a Communist politician.

After attending high school first in his hometown and then in Berlin Schawrz attended the University of Grenoble, University of Bonn and Berlin, graduating with a doctorate. During the First World War he briefly served as a soldier. He became involved with the labour movement in Chemnitz, following the November Revolution. He joined the SPD and was there during the suppression of the Kapp Putsch in 1920. Radicalsed by the experience he moved to the USPD, accepting the post of district secretary in Kiel. By the end of the year he was with the KPD.

In early 1921 he was District Secretary for Hesse-Cassel, but went underground following the March Action. He was arrested in Berlin at the end of 1921 and was held prisoner in Kassel for several months in Kassel held prisoner. By October 1922 Schwarz was employed as a teacher in Berlin and served as a left-wing member of the party leadership for the district of Berlin-Brandenburg. When Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow formed a left-wing party leadership, he became a full-time party functionary running the party organisation in Thuringia operation. In May and again in December 1924 Schwarz was elected Reichstag deputy for the KPD.

In 1925 as the internal struggles of the KPD evolved, Schwarz belonged to the "ultraleft" wing. he started to criticise the Soviet Union as a counter-revolutionary state. While the party was still under Maslow and Fischer he gave up his party duties, and by May 1926 with the rise of Ernst Thälmann to party leadership, he left the KPD completely. Together with Karl Korsch he formed the group Entschiedene Linke group.He remained a member of the Reichstag, despite joining the the anti-parlamentarian KAPD.

After the loss of the Reichstag seat in 1928, Schwarz returned to teaching. Rather than having any party position, he concentrated on the promotion of German-French understanding. After the Nazi takeover Schwarz initially fled to France and then on Cuba and Mexico in the U.S. and took the 1944 U.S. citizenship. Two years before his death he moved to Germany, where he lived in Bad Godesberg.

Works

* "Deutsch-französischer Schüleraustausch (Echange interscolaire)", Langensalza 1930

References

*'Anti-Parliamentarism Abroad' in "The Commune: A Journal of Anti-Parliamentary Communism" Second Series Vol II, No. 6 September-October 1927


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