- Ernst Schwarz (politician)
Ernst Schwarz (Born 28 January, 1886 in
Landsberg / Warta; † May 29, 1958 atTwickenham ), was aCommunist politician .After attending high school first in his hometown and then in
Berlin Schawrz attended theUniversity of Grenoble ,University of Bonn and Berlin, graduating with a doctorate. During theFirst World War he briefly served as a soldier. He became involved with the labour movement inChemnitz , following theNovember Revolution . He joined theSPD and was there during the suppression of theKapp Putsch in 1920. Radicalsed by the experience he moved to theUSPD , accepting the post of district secretary inKiel . By the end of the year he was with theKPD .In early 1921 he was District Secretary for
Hesse-Cassel , but went underground following theMarch Action . He was arrested in Berlin at the end of 1921 and was held prisoner inKassel 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 ofBerlin-Brandenburg . WhenRuth Fischer andArkadi Maslow formed a left-wing party leadership, he became a full-time party functionary running the party organisation inThuringia 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 theSoviet 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 ofErnst Thälmann to party leadership, he left the KPD completely. Together withKarl Korsch he formed the groupEntschiedene Linke group.He remained a member of the Reichstag, despite joining the the anti-parlamentarianKAPD .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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