# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-schafer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:18:41.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-schafer"
name: "Paul Schäfer"
slug: "paul-schafer"
description: "Paul Schäfer Schneider was a German-Chilean Christian minister, convicted sexual offender, and the founder and leader of a sect and agricultural commune of 300 German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad located in Parral in southern Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago from 1961 to 2005. Schäfer was strongly influenced by the teachings of William Branham."
tagline: "German criminal and founder of a sect and agricultural commune Colonia Dignidad in Chile (1921–2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/PaulSch%C3%A4ferImage.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1921-12-04"
deathDate: "2010-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.98
  momentum:             11.84311224489796
  historical:           15.354976
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Schäfer"
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    title: "Paul Schäfer"
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    title: "Paul Schäfer"
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    title: "Paul Schäfer"
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    title: "Paul Schäfer"
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    title: "Paul Schäfer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump