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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, 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 1,796,969 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Paul Schäfer is the 109th most popular social activist (up from 115th in 2019), the 861st most popular biography from Germany (up from 982nd in 2019) and the 9th 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 109 out of 538Before him are Susan B. Anthony, José Rizal, Zhang Jue, Yun Chi-ho, Vlado Chernozemski, and Kim Hyong-jik. After him are Frank Costello, Mordechai Anielewicz, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Jody Williams, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, and George Stinney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Paul Schäfer ranks 50Before him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow, György Cziffra, Zdeněk Miler, Nexhmije Hoxha, Lydia Litvyak, and Abdul Salam Arif. After him are Alida Valli, Jane Russell, James Jones, Sugar Ray Robinson, Telmo Zarra, and Seretse Khama. Among people deceased in 2010, Paul Schäfer ranks 31Before him are Dino De Laurentiis, Miep Gies, Francesco Cossiga, Blake Edwards, Néstor Kirchner, and Algirdas Brazauskas. After him are Louise Bourgeois, Bruno Cremer, Henryk Górecki, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, and Alice Miller.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Schäfer ranks 861 out of 6,142Before him are Carl Spitzweg (1808), Hans Sachs (1494), Joseph Berchtold (1897), Roland Emmerich (1955), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), and Viktor Lutze (1890). After him are Robert Aumann (1930), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Carl von Linde (1842), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Paul Schäfer ranks 9Before him are Martin Niemöller (1892), Sophie Scholl (1921), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Anneliese Michel (1952), Horst Wessel (1907), and Jenny von Westphalen (1814). After him are Hans Scholl (1918), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Sophia of Prussia (1870), Gerda Christian (1913), Klaus Störtebeker (1360), and Rudi Dutschke (1940).