26 Facts About Alexander Schwab

Alexander Schwab was a German political activist.

Alexander Schwab withdrew from active participation in politics after resigning from the fractious and short-lived Communist Workers' Party in 1922, but continued his contribution as an independent left of centre commentator-journalist.

Alexander Schwab was born into a Protestant family in Stuttgart.

Alexander Schwab grew up in Danzig where his father Karl Julius Schwab, a musician and composer, was in charge of the music at the city opera house.

Alexander Schwab was a member of the politically left-of-centre Wandervogel hiking movement.

Alexander Schwab received his doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1913.

On 8 May 1914 the unmarried status of two members of the cohabiting community ended when Alexander Schwab married Dr Hildegard Felisch: it was her twenty-fifth birthday.

Alexander Schwab lost little time in volunteering for the army.

Alexander Schwab was very quickly rejected for military service on account of a pulmonary hemorrhage.

Alexander Schwab was instead sent to a desk job in the war supplies department.

Alexander Schwab became friendly with the radical socialist educationalist Otto Ruhle and with the young artist Conrad Felixmuller.

In 1917 Alexander Schwab joined the Independent Social Democratic Party which had broken away from the mainstream Social Democratic Party following an intensification of internal party ructions over funding for the war.

Alexander Schwab found himself on the left wing of the Communist Party, collaborating closely with Karl Schroder.

Alexander Schwab was sharply critical of Comrade Lenin's political tactics in respect of western Europe: the speeches he contributed were published in the congress minutes, using the cover name "Sachs" to identify him.

The party's two principal strands staggered on, increasingly divided between themselves, for a few more years, but Alexander Schwab now removed himself from direct engagement with party politics.

Alexander Schwab supported himself as a freelance journalist and author specialising in economics, and increasingly in architecture.

From 1928 Alexander Schwab was involved with the "Social Sciences Association", according to at least one source as one if its founders.

Alexander Schwab teamed up with several, including Hugo Haring, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Martin Machler to produce "Das Buch vom Bauen", a book which appeared in 1930 under the pseudonym "Albert Sigrist".

Alexander Schwab was dismissed from his job as a press spokesman under the provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service enacted in April 1933.

Alexander Schwab joined with Franz Jung to launch "Wirtschaftskorrespondenz", a press agency with its focus on business news.

Alexander Schwab nevertheless returned to Berlin and, if he had not done so already, became the Rote Kampfer national leader.

Alexander Schwab was, in particularly, determined to minimise the culpability attaching to Karl Schroder, Franz Jung and, in particular, the younger members of the leadership team.

Alexander Schwab appeared unaware of the requirement to take account of pre-trial detention already served, but then wanted to reduce the sentence because the man to be sentenced had done some teaching, which sounded to him like a mitigating factor.

Alexander Schwab's health was ruined, but he nevertheless lived on till 1950.

Alexander Schwab was the only one of the six who would not survive his prison term.

Alexander Schwab spend time in the Concentration Camp at Borgermoor.