Emanuel Schäfer
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Emanuel Schäfer (April 20, 1900 – December 4, 1974) was an SS-Oberführer and Reinhard Heydrich's protegee in Nazi Germany.
Schäfer was born in Hultschin (Hlučín) in the Province of Silesia. He served in World War I in a Field Artillery Regiment. After the war, he participated in far-right Freikorps groups such as the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt and from 1925-28, the Stahlhelm. With Catholic origins, he became a Protestant in 1928, before designating himself to be a Gottgläubiger as early as 1936.
Schäfer joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1933 and was appointed group leader on April 20, 1933. He was an active member of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the SS security services, as soon as 1933, and entered the Schutzstaffel (SS) in September 1936. Schäfer took part in the discussion in Berlin on September 21, 1939, with Heydrich, the bureau chiefs of the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office), and Adolf Eichmann.[1]
During World War II, Schäfer was head of the security police in Serbia. After the war, in Germany, he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for having gassed to death 6,280 women and children. [2]
