Ernst Schwarz (politician)

Ernst Schwarz (born 18 January 1886 in Landsberg / Warta, † May 29, 1958 in Twickenham ), pseudonym Ernst Thiede, was a communist politician.

Life

After attending high school in his hometown and in Berlin Black attended the universities of Grenoble, Bonn and Berlin, completing his studies with a doctorate. During the First World War was short black soldier and then taught as Studienassessor. Without prior relations with the labor movement, he joined after the November Revolution of 1918 in Chemnitz in the SPD, where he was in charge during the crackdown of the Kapp Putsch in 1920 with the control of the police. By Geschehenisse radicalized, Black joined a little later in the USPD, took over the post of district secretary in Kiel and joined with the left wing of the party end of the year together with the KPD.

Here he was early 1921 District Secretary for Hessen- Nassau, went into hiding after the March Action and fled to Berlin, where he was arrested in late 1921 and subsequently held several months in Kassel caught. In October 1922 Black, which now becomes the "left" wing belonged within the KPD could take a job as a teacher in Berlin, while serving as a member of the party leadership of the district Berlin- Brandenburg. With the installation of the "left " party leadership to Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow 1924 he became a full-time party functionary and was dominated by the leadership of the " Right " from the wing to the former party leader Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer party district Thuringia entrusted. In May and again in December 1924, Black was chosen for the Communist Party in the Reichstag.

When you re breaking up, battling in the KPD 1925 Black belonged to the " ultra-left " wing and began as the Soviet Union as a counter-revolutionary coup criticize, he was delivered still under Fischer and Maslow by his party functions and the end of May 1926 by the new party leadership to Ernst Thalmann expelled from the party. Together with the also excluded Karl Korsch he initially formed the group Decisive left, but fell out soon after with Korsch and approached the anti-parliamentary KAP, which, however, he himself did not join because he this his seat in the Reichstag (which he was a member of the parliamentary group left Communists perceived ) would have had to resign.

After losing the Reichstag mandate 1928 Black taught again as a teacher and moved away from his previous political positions; he was the Pan- movement and was active in promoting the Franco-German understanding. After the takeover of the NSDAP 1933 Black fled first to France and then to Cuba and Mexico, the USA in 1937 and 1944 took the U.S. citizenship. Two years before his death he moved to Germany, where he settled in Bad Godesberg. He died in England while on a trip.

Works

• German - French exchange student ( Echange interscolaire ). Langensalza 1930