Hans Schaffert

Hans Schaffert ( born June 22, 1918 in Bühler, died July 24, 2003 in Kilchberg ZH).

Family
Hans Schaffert was the son of the teacher Hans Otto Schaffert and his wife Helene (née Schläpfer). His first marriage was to Cécile (née Banyai) in 1947 and his second to Eva Berta (née Evard) in 1978.

Activities during the Second World War
In 1942, while he was studying theology and spending a semester abroad in Clermont-Ferrand , Hans Schaffert was asked to represent the French pastor of the Protestant community in the Gurs deportation camp in the Basses Pyrénées department. He stayed there for three months and witnessed the first deportations to the Auschwitz concentration camp and spontaneously helped six young men to escape to Spain. After his return to Switzerland, he wrote a report about the camp and addressed it to the President of the Federation of Swiss Evangelical Churches, Alphons Koechlin (1885–1965), who forwarded the report to Federal Councilor Eduard von Steiger; He also passed the report on to Paul Vogt, who later became his boss in the refugee parish, and to the theologian Karl Barth. The politician Arthur Frey also received the report and published it anonymously . The publication led to a protest by the President of the French Federation of Evangelical Churches, Marc Boegner , to Marshal Philippe Pétain .

After his ordination , Hans Schaffert, together with the German pastor Kurt Lehmann (1892-1963), from 1943 to 1945, worked for Paul Vogt in the refugee parish office in Zurich , which was run by the Federation of Swiss Evangelical Churches and the Evangelical-Reformed regional church in the canton Zurich and by the Swiss Church Aid Committee for Protestant refugees. In 1944 they received minutes from Budapest from George Mandel-Mantello about the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz and, together with Rabbi Zwi Taubes, campaigned in July 1944 for the publication of these documents.

In a nightly operation from July 3rd to 4th, 1944, together with Paul Vogt, he duplicated 2000 copies of the protocol and then sent them out. The publication of the so-called Auschwitz Protocol by the escaped concentration camp prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler caused a worldwide response and increased public pressure on the great powers. In 1989 Georg Mantello thanked Hans Schaffert for his work "as one of the main participants in the rescue of 150,000 Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust".

Hans Schaffert war Verantwortlicher des Schweizerischen Hilfswerks für die bekennende Kirche in Deutschland, Leiter der Freiplatzaktion und Flüchtlingshilfe der Kirchen (Mitarbeiter von Paul Vogt) und HEKS-Zentralsekretär. Auch die evangelische Kirche musste für Flüchtlinge bezahlen. Der Bundesrat sei durch Hans Schaffert im Sommer 1942 über Deportationen aus Gurs und durch Vogt über Vernichtungslager informiert worden.

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