Klaus Schäfer (catholic theologian)

Klaus Schäfer SAC (born 1958) is a German catholic theologian, priest and author.

He has published many books on such themes as stillbirth, brain death and organ donation as well as travelogues on pilgrimage by bicycle.

[1] After his time at school Schäfer studied to be an electrical engineer, after which he served for twelve years as a soldier in the German Bundeswehr.

As a Pallottiner the abbreviation SAC was added after his name (for the Latin Societas Apostolatus Catholici, translated as "Community of the Catholic Apostles") in the form of a Postnominale.

In 1999 Peter Schäfer was a church minister in Kippenhausen in Baden-Württemberg, after which he worked as a hospital chaplain at the Vincentius-Hospital in Karlsruhe.