Gerhard Schwarz

Gerhard Schwarz (22 August 1902 – 13 October 1995 ) was a German church musician, organist and composer.

Life

Born in Rusinowa (near Waldenburg), Silesia, Schwarz studied church, and school music, philosophy and musicology in Berlin. On 1 November 1932, he became a member of the NSDAP (member number 1.467.044). Schwarz founded the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule and was organist at the new church in Berlin.

After the "Machtergreifung" of the National Socialists, he edited the flag song of the NSDAP and subsequently composed various pieces of popular music in the spirit of National Socialism. In 1934 he became a clerk at the Reichsjugendpfarrer. In addition, he was music advisor at the Oberbann Süd of the Hitlerjugend of the Kurmark but was removed from this office in 1936 because of suspicion of homosexuality. (Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1935) put on the .

Schwarz died in the near Bebra at age 93.

Work Melodie zum Weihnachtslied Also liebt Gott die arge Welt in Evangelisches Gesangbuch (Nr. 51) An die Freunde Kleiner Kalender (1938) for four-part choir