LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
For Executing Form ID and Forms, 3, 4, 5 and 144

	The undersigned hereby appoints William Acheson, as the true
and lawful attorney-in-fact, signing singly, for the undersigned,
for such period of time that the undersigned is required to file
reports pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or Rule 144 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), due to
the undersigned's affiliation with GWG Holdings, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact, to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Form ID (Uniform
Application for Access Codes to file on EDGAR) and Forms 3, 4,
5 and 144 and any amendments to previously filed forms in
accordance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act or Rule 144
of the Securities Act and the rules thereunder.

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete
the execution of any such Form ID and Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144
and the timely filing of such form with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and any other authority as
required by law; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-
fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that
the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of
the undersigned pursuant to this Limited Power of Attorney
shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or her
discretion.

      The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and
thing whatsoever requisite, necessary and proper to be done in
the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as
fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned could do if
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or
his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to
be done by virtue of this Limited Power of Attorney and the rights
and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the
request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the
Exchange Act or Rule 144 of the Securities Act.

      This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms
144, Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of
and transactions in securities issued by the Company unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Limited
Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 13th day of
May, 2018.


_/s/ Mark E. Schwarzmann________
Signature

__ Mark E. Schwarzmann_________
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