Shimon Schwarzschild Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

He died in New York on November 10, 2021, at the age of 95.

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”. The film is being made with the assistance of Schwarzschild’s grand-nephew Benjamin Schwarzschild, who stated that the film will include many scenes of Laudenbach, where Shimon’s mother was born. As of April 2020, the film was expected to be completed in May 2020, and to premier in the county museum in autumn 2020.

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.

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

In 2004 in New York City, Schwarzschild married Naomi Schechter.

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.

Shimon Schwarzschild (December 19, 1925 – November 10, 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 and helped organize the Assisi Nature Council. He was also active on many other environmental and neighborhood issues.

Schwarzschild was born on 19 December 1925, in Wertheim, Germany. Schwarzschild’s mother, Rosalia Birk, daughter of Moses and Ida Birk, was born in Laudenbach, Germany. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (1950).