Ronald Barnabas Schill (born 23 November 1958) is a former German judge, the founder of the German political parties Party for a Rule of Law Offensive (Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive; also called PRO or "Schill party") and Pro DM/Schill. He served as the Senator of the Interior and Second Mayor (deputy chief of government) in the government of Hamburg from 2001 to 2003.

He now lives in Brazil. Since 2014, Schill has appeared in inexpensively produced TV reality shows on German cable channels.

Political career

Schill started his career as a judge at an Amtsgericht in Hamburg from 1993 to 2001. Due to his controversial rulings as a judge, which frequently involved the maximum penalty, he was given the nickname "Richter Gnadenlos" ("Judge Merciless");

References

Further reading

  • Marco Carini, Andreas Speit: Ronald Schill. Der Rechtssprecher, Hamburg 2002, (in German)
  • Holger Stürenburg: Ronald B. Schill - Der Eisbrecher?! Eine Chronik des Wechsels in Hamburg, Köln 2002, (in German)
  • Florian Hartleb: Rechts- und Linkspopulismus - Eine Fallstudie anhand von Schill-Partei und PDS (Right-wing and Left-wing Populism. A Case Study of Schill Party and PDS), Wiesbaden 2004, (in German)
  • Birgit Baumann: Ronald Schill - Ein gnadenloser Scharfmacher in M. Jungwirth (Hrsg.): Haider, Le Pen & Co.: Europas Rechtspopulisten, Graz 2002, S. 62–73, (in German)
  • Biography
  • Schill as a judge; an article from the Sonntagsblatt
  • An interview with Schill at planet-interview.de (2001)