Ernst Schwarz

Ernst Schwarz (* 1889 in Frankfurt am Main, † 1962) was a German zoologist.

Schwarz studied zoology in Munich. He then worked at the Natural History Museum in Frankfurt and at the Zoological Museum in Berlin. He was one of the founders in 1926 of the German Society of Mammalogy. In 1929 he became professor of zoology at the University of Greifswald. He worked from 1933 to 1937 at the Natural History Museum in London, and then moved to the United States. His specialty was the great apes.