SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Paul Schäfer

1921 - 2010

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Paul Schäfer Schneider (4 December 1921 – 24 April 2010) was a German-Chilean Christian minister, a Nazi, convicted sex offender, and the founder and leader of a sect and agricultural commune of 300 German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) (later renamed Villa Baviera) located in Parral in southern Chile, about 340 km (210 miles) south of Santiago from 1961 to 2005. Schäfer led his followers in the teachings of William Branham. Aside from human rights abuses against members of Colonia Dignidad, including rape and sexual and physical abuse (including torture) of young children, Schäfer maintained a relationship with Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973–1990) and was involved in weapons smuggling and the torture and extrajudicial killings of political dissidents. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Schäfer has received more than 1,884,281 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Schäfer is the 150th most popular social activist (down from 109th in 2019), the 1,243rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 861st in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Social Activist.

Paul Schäfer is most famous for being the founder of Colonia Dignidad, a German commune in Chile.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Paul Schäfer ranks 150 out of 840. Before him are Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bertha Pappenheim, Meng Huo, Beppe Grillo, Andrés Bonifacio, and Mangal Pandey. After him are Guru Ram Das, Klaus Störtebeker, Dmitry Muratov, Jacques Roux, Gerda Christian, and Sergey Nechayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Paul Schäfer ranks 76. Before him are Amin al-Hafiz, Françoise Gilot, Thomas Schelling, Jack Steinberger, Robert Bruce Merrifield, and Lydia Litvyak. After him are Geoffrey Wilkinson, Chris Marker, Yuri Nikulin, Murray Bookchin, Peter Benenson, and Countess Georgina von Wilczek. Among people deceased in 2010, Paul Schäfer ranks 47. Before him are Bekim Fehmiu, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Enzo Bearzot, Blake Edwards, John Fenn, and Francisco Varallo. After him are Mario Monicelli, Arthur Penn, Juliet Anderson, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Joan Sutherland, and Antony Flew.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Schäfer ranks 1,243 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (1874), Konrad Witz (1400), Ulay (1943), Thomas Müller (1989), Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), and Josef Harpe (1887). After him are Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), and Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1837).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Paul Schäfer ranks 14. Before him are Widukind (755), Anneliese Michel (1952), Hans Scholl (1918), Sophia of Prussia (1870), Alfred Naujocks (1911), and Marianne Bachmeier (1950). After him are Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Gerda Christian (1913), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818), Carl Oberg (1897), and Gretl Braun (1915).

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