[1] Shimon completed the Realschule, the local school that combined religious studies and general subjects in conformity with the Torah im Derech Eretz ideology propagated by Rabbi Hirsch.

After the Realschule he was a full-time student for a number of years in the Torah Lehranstalt, the local yeshiva founded by Rabbi Breuer.

It was not very common for German-Jewish students to study in Eastern-European yeshivot, but two of Shimon's brothers (Moshe and Mordechai) would later follow the same path.

[1] In the spring of 1930, he spent a weekend with Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (the Chafetz Chaim), then the leader of non-Hassidic Eastern-European Ashkenazi Jewry.

He was succeeded after his death by Rabbi Zechariah Gelley, the Sunderland (England) Rosh Yeshivah who had already joined the kehilla several years earlier as second Rav.

[1] Schwab, being a product of both the German Torah im Derech Eretz movement and the Eastern-European yeshiva world, initially identified strongly with the latter.

)[1] Other points often discussed in his work the independence of Orthodoxy and the perceived materialistic excesses and expenses of the modern world, especially at weddings.

When it comes to Zionism, especially the kind that has changed it from Realpolitik into a pre-Messianic religion, let us be firm and brave and defy all forces which tend to weaken our fundamentalist (yes) loyalty to the unadulterated heritage which we have received from our forebears.