Henry Peter Zwar, OBE (2 December 1873 – 12 January 1959) was an Australian liberal/conservative politician, local government councillor, local government head, Member of Lower House and tannery owner.

His parents, Michael Zwar and Agnes Zimmer, were Sorbs from Bautzen in Saxony, Germany,[1] who had sought asylum after taking part in the 1848 revolution.

[1][3] The UAP had become the Liberal Party by the 1945 election, at which an electoral redistribution abolished Heidelberg, placing Zwar in the new, notionally Labor seat of Preston, while shifting the more conservative areas of his old electorate to the new seat of Ivanhoe.

[5][6] He was defeated by 143 votes by Labor candidate and Victoria Cross holder William Ruthven.

Henry and Jane's other daughter Beryl Carrick Hughes (nee Zwar) is buried at Fawkner Memorial Park, Garden Bed F, Position 28.