Roland Schäfer

Schäfer was born in Lemgo, Lippe district on 29 July 1949. After graduating from the modern languages branch of the Leopoldinum Gymnasium (Detmold) in 1968, Schäfer studied law at the University of Bielefeld and completed supplementary studies at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.^[1]

He was married and had a daughter and a son. Schäfer died on 1 January 2026, at the age of 76, from complications of a cerebral haemorrhage he had suffered four days earlier.^[2][3]

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• Literature by and about Roland Schäfer in the German National Library catalogue
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• Press release on the awarding of the Order of Merit, First Class