Gerhard Schwarz

Gerhard Schwarz (22 August 1902 – 13 October 1995[1]) was a German church musician, organist and composer.

Born in Rusinowa (near Waldenburg), Silesia, Schwarz studied church, and school music, philosophy and musicology in Berlin.

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.

In 1949 he moved to Düsseldorf, where he became director of the Landeskirchenmusikschule der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland [de] and organist of the Johanneskirche.

In the Soviet occupation zone was Schwarz's book Eine Trommel geht in Deutschland um[4] (Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1935) put on the list of literature to be excluded [de].