• Scholz, Elfriede

    née Remark, 1903–1943. Sister of writer Erich Maria Remarque. Sentenced to death and executed in 1943 for allegedly "undermining the war effort". All Erich Maria Remarque's to legally rehabilitate his sister were unsuccessful. This was not accomplished until 2002.
  • Schönthan, Doris von

    1905-1961, journalist, photographer
  • Schuschnigg, Kurt

    1897-1977, Austrian politician; initially the Justice Minister, then the Federal Chancellor from 1934 to the annexation of Austria in March 1938. Emigrated to the USA after the war, where he took up a professorship in Constitutional Law. 1968 Return to Austria.
  • Schwarz, Paul

    1882-1951, German diplomat, Consul General in New York until 1933, dismissed after handover of power and exiled in the U.S. Financial advisor, later worked for the American intelligence service OSS (Office of Strategic Services).
  • Schwarz, Rudolf

    1905-1994, conductor and pianist. 1933 Dismissed from his post as musical director at the Landestheater (state theatre) in Karlsruhe. 1936-1941 Directed the orchestra of the Cultural Federation of German Jews in Berlin. 1943 Deported to Auschwitz, from there sent to Bergen-Belsen via the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. Emigrated to Sweden after the war ended. Later directed several renowned symphony orchestras in Britain.
  • Schwarzenbach, Annemarie

    (1908-1942), Swiss writer and journalist, came from a family of Zurich industrialists, and was friends with Klaus and Erika Mann
  • Schwarzschild, Leopold

    (1891-1950), editor and journalist, editor of the magazine "Das Tage-Buch" during the Weimar Republic; in 1933 he founded the exile magazine "Das Neue Tage-Buch" in Paris which he ran before escaping to the United States in 1940
  • Seabrook, William

    1886-1945, American author and journalist. Was intensely interested in occultism and magic. In 1935 he married the author Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976). His friends included Aldous Huxley, who organised the Sanary-Sur-Mer Garten parties in the 1930, which were frequented by many prominent guest including Thomas Mann and Lion und Marta Feuchtwanger.
  • Seidlin, Oskar

    1911-1984, scholar of German, emigrated in 1933 to Switzerland and continued on to the United States of America in 1938
  • Seyppel, Joachim

    1919-2012, German writer who initially worked as a university lecturer in the USA after the Second World War; he returned to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1961; relocated to the German Democratic Republic in 1973; returned to West Germany in 1979 as a critic of the GDR regime.