Reinhold Schneider was born on April 13, 1903 in Baden-Baden.  He moved to Berlin as a young man and began a career as a writer just as the Weimar Republic came to its end and the rise of Alolph Hitler and the National Socialist Party (Nazi) commenced.  Schneider moved to Dresden in 1938 and opposed the party and its policies in his writings.  He was denounced by the authorities and writings were forbidden.  The Gestapo was about to arrest him in 1945, but he was able to hide until the end of the war.  Schneider fervent in his Catholicism and his writings during and after the war reflect his religious commitment.  He is considered one of the leading Catholic writers in Germany of the twentieth century.  Schneider died on April 6. 1958.