Schulz was born to
Jewish parents in
Berlin,
Weimar Germany on 8 July 1925. The marriage of his parents would later be described as "disastrous" from the start, which would shape Schulz. When he was 13 years old, Schulz and his parents fled to
Argentina to escape persecution under the
Nazi regime. In Argentina, Schulz would later come to know the
Trotskyist revolutionary
Juan Posadas, with whom he claimed to feel a deep connection, and viewed as "a truly great man". Posadas would reportedly give his life meaning, rescuing him from loneliness and depression. Schulz became a
militant for the
Workers' Party and the
Grupo Cuarta Internacional (GCI) under Posadas. From 1959 to 1961, Schulz was, along with two other militants, sent to the
Moroccan city of
Kentira by Posadas in order aid
Michel Pablo, who had transformed a citrus plantation into a secret munitions factory built to supply the
National Liberation Front during the
Algerian national liberation struggle against
France. Schulz returned to
West Germany at the end of 1969, where he would temporarily settle in
Frankfurt and work for
Opel as a
metallurgist. During this time, Schulz was involved in
union activities. After his retirement, Schulz settled in
Treptow,
East Berlin, where he rented an
apartment with his spouse, Eva-Marie Wanke. In his apartment, Schulz set up a
printing shop and
bookbindery, where he personally write, print, and bind books, magazines, and brochures which he would try to sell on markets in Berlin. Schulz and his spouse moved to
Neukölln in 2007. Schulz joined the German section of the
Fourth International–Posadist (
German:
Deutsche Sektion der IV. Internationale Trotzkisten-Posadisten), a small group of about 30 members in
Frankfurt, spokesperson of which being the former
KPD member Harald Grünberg. The group split up after the death of Posadas in May 1981. Grünberg later worked for
The Left Party.PDS. Posadas's death in 1981 reportedly caused the life of Schulz to fall apart as he would lose basic social skills and his marriage would "disintegrate", causing his renewed fall into depression. In 1983, at the age of 58, Schulz reported to experience an awakening, starting to hear the voices of aliens and writing of a "sudden change" in his personality as well as outlook upon his return from Latin America earlier that year. Schulz died of a
lung infection on the 25 February 2013 at the age of 87. He was buried on the St. Thomas Friedhof in
Neukölln on the 8 March 2013. == Beliefs ==