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Henning Schwarz

German politician

Summary

German politician

Field	Value
name	Henning Schwarz
image	KAS-Schwarz, Henning-Bild-7634-1.jpg
alt	A 1979 political campaign poster featuring Schwarz.
caption	Schwarz featured on a 1979 campaign poster
office	Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
status	Interim
deputy	vacant
term_start	2 October 1987
term_end	31 May 1988
predecessor	Uwe Barschel
successor	Björn Engholm
office1	Deputy Minister-President
of Schleswig-Holstein
1blankname1	Minister-President
1namedata1	Gerhard Stoltenberg
Uwe Barschel
term_start1	26 May 1975
term_end1	2 October 1987
predecessor1	Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve
successor1	Marianne Tidick (1988)
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office2	Minister of Federal Affairs
1blankname2	Minister-President
1namedata2	Gerhard Stoltenberg
Uwe Barschel
himself
term_start2	29 May 1979
term_end2	31 May 1988
predecessor2	Position established
successor2	Marianne Tidick
office3	Minister of Justice
1blankname3	Minister-President
1namedata3	Uwe Barschel
term_start3	13 April 1983
term_end3	16 December 1985
predecessor3	Karl Eduard Claussen
successor3	Heiko Hoffmann
1blankname4	Minister-President
1namedata4	Helmut Lemke
Gerhard Stoltenberg
term_start4	3 November 1969
term_end4	29 Mai 1979
predecessor4	Claus-Joachim von Heydebreck
successor4	Karl Eduard Claussen}}
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office8	Member of the
Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
term_start8	29 May 1979
term_end8	2 October 1987
successor8	Trutz Graf Kerssenbrock
predecessor8	Siegfried Loose
constituency8	Ahrensburg
term_start9	24 May 1971
term_end9	24 May 1975
successor9	Kurt Böge
predecessor9	Constituency established
constituency9	Segeberg-West}}
birth_name	Henning Michael Schwarz
birth_date
birth_place	Gut Frauenholz, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Rethwisch, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
death_date
death_cause	Leukemia
party	[[File:CDU Logo 2023.svg	20px	frameless	left	CDU]] Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) (1948–1993)
death_place	Kiel, Germany
children	3
occupation
alma_mater	University of Würzburg
University of Hamburg
cabinet	Lemke II
Stoltenberg I
Stoltenberg II
Stoltenberg III
Barschel I
Barschel II
Schwarz

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Henning Schwarz (24 October 1928 – 13 April 1993) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was interim Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein during the Barschel affair.

Life

Schwarz was born in Bad Oldesloe. His father was German CDU politician Werner Schwarz. Schwarz studied law in Würzburg and Hamburg, receiving a Doctor of Law in 1958. He then worked as a lawyer.

From 1971 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1987 he was member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1969, he served in various cabinet positions in the Schleswig-Holstein state government under Minister-Presidents Helmut Lemke, Gerhard Stoltenberg and Uwe Barschel, most of the time as Minister of Justice. In 1975, Stoltenberg named him Deputy Minister-President, a position which he kept after Barschel became Minister-President due to Stoltenberg being appointed Federal Minister of Finance.

After the 1987 Schleswig-Holstein state election, the CDU lost their absolute majority and the Barschel affair became public. Due to a deadlock in the Landtag and the affair, new elections were called for 1988. Barschel resigned on 2 October 1987 and later died on 11 October. Schwarz, as Deputy Minister-President, became Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein on an interim basis until a new government was formed after the May 1988 election. He himself did not run in that election; CDU candidate for Ministers-President (Spitzenkandidat) instead was his Minister of Justice Heiko Hoffmann. The SPD won and Schwarz retired from politics.

Schwarz holds the distinction of being the longest-serving interim Minister-President of a German state, serving for the entire 11th legislative term, lasting about eight months. Most interim Minister-Presidents serve only for a few days (such as Michael Vesper in 2002 or Katharina Fegebank in 2018), some even for just one day on the grounds of constitutional technicalities (such as Jörg Bode in 2010 or Joachim Stamp in 2021). He is also the first and only interim Minister-President to lead his own cabinet, .

He was married and had three children. He died in Kiel.

Awards

1978: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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