Werner Schwarz

Michael Carl Werner Schwarz (21 January 1900 in Hamburg – 2 September 1982 at Gut Frauenholz near Bad Oldesloe) was a German politician (CDU). He was the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forestry from 1959 to 1965.

Life Werner Schwarz was born in 1900 as the son of a merchant in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst. After attending high school in Hamburg-Bergedorf, he went to trade school in Hamburg in 1917. In 1918, he participated in World War I as a soldier. From 1918 to 1922, he completed agricultural training and studied agriculture from 1922 to 1925. From 1926 onwards, he was a self-employed farmer at Gut Frauenholz. From 1948 to 1959, Schwarz was the second state chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Farmers' Association and simultaneously a member of the presidency of the German Farmers' Association. Two of his grandchildren are thus simultaneously Schleswig-Holstein state ministers in the Second Günther cabinet.

From 1953 to 1965, Schwarz was a Member of the Bundestag (MdB). He was always directly elected as the representative of the Stormarn constituency in the Bundestag.

After Heinrich Lübke was elected Federal President, Schwarz was appointed Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forestry on 14 October 1959 as his successor in the federal government led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He retained this position initially under Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and then left the federal government on 26 October 1965 after the 1965 West German federal election.