author
Less an individual author than a catalog label, this name points to official German laws and statutory texts that have been published and archived in book form. It appears on older legal and government volumes, especially when no single personal author is credited.

by A. (Albert) Schäffle, etc. statutes Germany. Laws
This entry does not seem to refer to a single identifiable person. In library and public-domain book records, names like "Germany. Laws, statutes, etc." are often used as a corporate or cataloging author for official legal texts, compilations of statutes, and government publications.
Search results connect this label with editions of German legal materials and with public-domain listings for works such as The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection, where the statutes are credited alongside another named author or translator rather than as a biographical individual. Because of that, there is no reliable personal life story, career timeline, or portrait that can be confirmed for this entry.
For audiobook listeners, the most helpful way to read this author line is as a sign that the work draws on official German law rather than on the voice of one standalone writer. Where a specific editor, scholar, or translator is known, that person is usually the better source for biographical interest.