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Emanuel Schafer (20 April 1900 – 4 December 1974) was a high-ranking SS functionary (SS- Oberfuhrer ) and a protege of Reinhard Heydrich in Nazi Germany .

Born in 1900, Schafer served in World War I . Post-war, he participated in far-right Freikorps groups such as the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt and from 1925 to 1928, Der Stahlhelm (The Steel helmet).

Schafer joined the paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1933. He was an active member of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the SS security service, in 1933, and entered the SS in September 1936.

During World War II , Schafer was head of the Nazi security police in Serbia . Between January and May 1942, Schafer supervised the murder by gassing of around 7,300 Jews from the Semlin camp across the Sava river from Belgrade . A Saurer gas van was used to kill the 7,300. A further 1,200 Jews died as a result of the camp's harsh conditions, or from executions. The van was used for the last time on 10 May 1942. In May 1942, Schafer sent a cable to the Reich Security Main Office boasting "with pride" that "Belgrade was the only great city in Europe that was free of Jews." ^{[1] [2] [3]}

After the war, Schafer was briefly detained by U.S. occupation authorities. In February 1951, he was arrested by West German authorities for his Gestapo and SD membership. On 20 June 1951, Schafer was sentenced to 21 months in prison by a denazification court. He was released from prison in February 1953. Schafer was then re-arrested for his involvement in mass murder as an Einsatzkommando . On 20 June 1953, Schafer was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for over 5000 counts of being an accessory to murder and two counts of being an accessory to manslaughter. He was released from prison early in 1956. Schafer died in 1974.

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