Karl Schwarz
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Prohibited from working 28.11.1939 - 08.05.1945
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Curriculum Vitae
Karl Schwarz was born to Jewish parents in Esseg in Slavonia in Croatia. It is no longer clear whether it was his parents who converted to the Catholic faith or Karl Schwarz.
After completing his A-levels, Karl Schwarz entered the seminary in Vienna and was ordained a priest in St. Stephen's Cathedral in 1903. He was then a cooperator (chaplain) in Retz until 1907 and then chaplain in Altottakring. In 1928, he finally became a parish priest in Altottakring.
There he also witnessed the fall of Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on March 12, 1938. Due to the Nuremberg Race Laws, Karl Schwarz was subjected to "racial" persecution by the National Socialists and was forced to take the name Karl Israel Schwarz.
The Catholic priest Karl Israel Schwarz, Jewish, born on 29.3.1878 in Esseg, DR, in Vienna, Ottakringerstrasse 215, wh., was relieved of his office with immediate effect at my instigation [head of the Gestapo Vienna was Franz Josef Huber] out of consideration for the national sentiment of the population by the Ordinariate Vienna. The state subsidy was discontinued retroactively as of May 1, 1939. Schwarz did not make any political appearances.
The report from the SD headquarters on April 3, 1940 also reports that Karl Schwarz, as a "full Jew" [note: this is the National Socialist designation] had refused to use the middle name "Israel", which is why he was punished by the Gestapo.
Karl Schwarz is given leave of absence from the Archdiocese of Vienna and goes into exile in a monastery in Bavaria, where he is able to go into hiding. There he lived to see the end of the war.
In the spring of 1946, Karl Schwarz wrote to Archbishop Theodor Cardinal Innitzer
Citations
Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (1984): Widerstand und Verfolgung in Wien 1934-1945. Band 3 (Wien) S. 46
Homepage der Pfarre Alt-Ottakring unter www.altottakring.at
Diözesanarchiv Wien
