Émile Schaus

After studying in Paris, Munich and Berlin, Schaus became a literature teacher, first in Diekirch, later at the Athénée in Luxembourg City.

[2] Due to his political views, during the German occupation he was deported by the Nazis to the concentrations camps of Wittlich, then Hinzert, then Dachau.

In 1945 for a few months he was political editor of the Luxemburger Wort and in the same year he was appointed head teacher of the Ecole Normale, which he remained until 1959.

One year later he was Minister for Agriculture, Education, Population and Family in the government of Pierre Werner.

He authored a variety of books: war memoirs, local history, children's literature such as Paul und Zorro or novels such as Marianne Bourkels.