Shimon Schwarzschild

Shimon Schwarzschild (19 December 1925 – 10 November 2021) was a German-born American environmental activist. His work contributed to the establishment of a nature preserve in Assisi, Italy. Schwarzschild founded the Assisi Bird Campaign He was also active on many other environmental and neighborhood issues.

Schwarzschild's activism received news coverage regionally, nationally, He was listed in the World Who's Who and Does What in Environment & Conservation.

Publications and works Schwarzschild's publications include a 1983 article in Audubon Magazine that first called international attention to the destruction of the birds of Assisi by hunting.

In 2020, Schwarzschild was finishing a film project called "Transcending Terror" about his relationship with the German town in which he grew up, Wertheim. He described the film as a documentary on "Loss, Opportunity and Redemption". and to premier in the county museum in autumn 2020. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (1950).

In 2010, and at several other times in later years, Schwarzschild visited his birthplace, Wertheim.

In 2019, at the age of 93, Schwarzschild and his wife visited his mother's birthplace Laudenbach, where he was hosted by Anja Baier, the third mayor of Karlstadt, a town that now encompasses Laudenbach, and two members of a synagogue that Schwarzschild attended as a child.