Reichsleiter Franz X. Schwarz - Party Member #6

[rlh]

I am looking for background and personal info on Franz Schwarz (NSDAP Treasurer), esp photos. Thanks

[Heraklit]

Er kam am 27. November1875 in Günzburg an der Donau im bayerischen Schwaben zur Welt, besuchte das Gymnasium und wurde 1900 Verwaltungsbeamter in München. Am Ersten Weltkrieg nahm er als Soldat teil. 1922 trat er der Hitlerbewegung bei. Nach dem Hitlerputsch vom November 1923 dienstentlassen, übernahm er die Leitung der Finanzen der NS-Ersatzorganisation "Großdeutsche Volksbewegung". Nach wiederbegründung der NSDAP 1925 wurde er Reichsschatzmeister, was er bis 1945 blieb. 1933 zog Hitlers "alter Kämpfer" in den Reichstag ein. 1935 wurde er Reichsleiter, 1943 ehrenhalber zum SS-Obergruppenführer ernannt. Er starb am 2 Dezember 1947 im amerikanischen Konzentrationslager Regensburg. Posthum wurde er im folgenden Jahr von einer Spruchkammer als "Hauptschuldiger" eingestuft, was für die Familie den Einzug des Vermögens zur Folge hatte.

Quelle: Prominente ohne Maske Drittes Reich, FZ Verlag, 1998.

[Michael Miller]

Franz Xaver Schwarz
Reichsleiter / SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer /
M.d.R. / Leutnant der Landwehr a.D.


Born: 27. Nov. 1875 in Günzburg / Bayern.
Died: 2. Dec. 1947 in Allied internment camp near Regensburg.

NSDAP-Nr.: 6
(Joined 1922)
SS-Nr.: 38 500
(Joined 13. Jun. 1932)

Promotions:
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer: 20. Apr. 1942
SS-Obergruppenführer: 1. Jul. 1933
SS-Gruppenführer: 13. Jun. 1932
Leutnant der Landwehr: Nov. 1914

Career:
Assigned to Staff, Reichsführer:
1. Apr. 1936 - 8. May 1945
Ehren-Oberstarbeitsführer (Reichsarbeitsdienst):
1935 -
Reichsleiter der NSDAP:
1935 - May 1945
Führer z.b.V. attached to Staff, Reichsführer-SS:
1. Oct. 1934 - 1. Apr. 1936
Member of the Reichstag (Electoral District Franken):
Mar. 1933 - May 1945
Stadtrat in München:
1929 -
Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (National Treasurer of the NSDAP):
28. Mar. 1925 - May 1945
Joined NSDAP:
1922
Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment 3:
Jan. 1914 - Dec. 1918
Landsturm-Bataillon Weilheim:
Sep. 1914 - Dec. 1914
Infanterie-Leib-Regiment:
Jan. 1895 - Mar. 1896
Attended Gymnasium in Günzburg.

Postwar Prosecution:
Posthumously classified by München de-Nazification court as a Hauptschuldiger (“Major Offender”), Sep. 1948.

Decorations & Awards:
Militärverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern (WW I)
Goldenes Parteiabzeichen
Blutorden
Dienstauszeichnungen der NSDAP in Gold, Silber und Bronze
Danzig Kreuz I. Klasse
Ehrendegen des RF SS
Totenkopfring der SS

Notes:
* Son of a master baker.
* Religion: Roman Catholic.
* Married with one son (born 1899).
* 30 % disabled in World War I.
* In his diary entry of 12. Dec. 1940, Dr. Joseph Goebbels wrote of Schwarz: “He is still the loyal old comrade-in-arms, who has more merits than any of the braggarts.”

[Marcus]

rlh,

Welcome to the forum.

/Marcus

[luotaol]

Portrait of Reichschatzmeister Franz Xaver Schwarz.
One of a collection of portraits included in a 1939 calendar of Nazi officials.


Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875-1947) was Treasurer of the Nazi Party. Schwarz was born and educated to a high school level in Guenzburg. Serving as a military clerk and a municipal official in Munich before serving in World War I, Schwarz joined the Nazi Party in 1922. He was part of the Old Guard from Hitler's early days in Munich. By 1925 he assumed his role as National Treasurer of the Nazi Party. Elected to the Reichstag as a representative of Franconia in 1933, Schwarz was named a Reich Leader in 1935. Honored with the rank of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer in 1943, Schwarz died in an internment camp in 1947. He was posthumously classified as a Major Offender by a Munich de-Nazification court in 1948.

[Source: Wistrich, Robert. "Who's Who in Nazi Germany." Routledge, 1995.]

Date: 1939
Locale: Germany
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Geoffrey Giles
Copyright: USHMM

Subject Classification:
NAZI OFFICIALS/PERSONALITIES OF THE THIRD REICH -- Gauleiter Calendar Portraits

Keywords:
CALENDARS
NAZI OFFICIALS
CLOSE-UPS
SCHWARZ, FRANZ XAVER

[Roderick]

Here is a nice photo of Xaver Schwarz (glasses) at Hofbräuhaus in Munich.

in the beginning was the verb...

Roderick

[Phil Nix]

Here is another one from the forum
phil Nix

[maxxx]

. Er starb am 2 Dezember 1947 im amerikanischen Konzentrationslager Regensburg. .

"he died on 12/2 1947 at the american concentration camp Regensburg"

??? somebody doesnt seem to know the difference between a war criminal prison and an extermination camp

[Max Williams]

. Er starb am 2 Dezember 1947 im amerikanischen Konzentrationslager Regensburg. .

"he died on 12/2 1947 at the american concentration camp Regensburg"

??? somebody doesnt seem to know the difference between a war criminal prison and an extermination camp

And somebody doesn't seem to know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp! Not all concentration camps were extermination camps.
Max.

[Feuchter]

I just read your old post about Schwarz. I have a color pencil portrait of him done in 1944. He is in uniform. I will have to find it again. It was given to my grandfather a friend of his. Both were in Regensburg detention camp in 1947.
I am located in West Teaxs

[Camp Upshur]

Schwarz too lived in a Degano villa-chalet in Gmund-Sankt Quiren literally around the corner and up the hill from Himmler's Degano home and Amman's Degano home whilst not visting the Fuehrer in his Degano home. The nexus has been so elusive. Any Third Reich architectural historians out there?

[Requin Marteau]

Bonjour,

Can someone identify this decoration ?

Crdl
Thierry

[Oberhessin]

Great picture!!!!
Could be Aldo Vidussonis Visit in Munich in October 1942.
May I ask for the source? Is it Library of Congress?

[Requin Marteau]

Bonjour,

Photo found on the net, some time ago, I know more or.
Perhaps Library of Congress.

Crdl
Thierry

[Michal78]

The source in on the photo...It is NAC archive http://audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/29747/ ... 82f2a8b08/
Michal