Neil D. Schaerrer

Neil Dean Schaerrer (April 12, 1930 – January 18, 1985) was the fourteenth general president of the Young Men organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1977 to 1979.

Born in Payson, Utah, Schaerrer served as a missionary for the church in Switzerland from 1950 to 1953.

In 1975, Schaerrer established the LDS Church as a legal entity in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Schaerrer served for two years and was succeeded by Backman, who by then had become a church general authority, in 1979.

Schaerrer was the last non-general authority to serve as president of the Young Men until Charles W. Dahlquist II was called in 2004.