Adolf Fischer (genealogist)

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Adolf Willibald Fischer (born April 29, 1925 in Rohr , Czechoslovakia , † February 28, 1995 in Nuremberg ) was a German genealogist . He organized and led working groups for family research in the Egerland and East Germany.

Life

As a graduate of a middle school, Adolf Fischer became an apprentice at the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Eger in western Bohemia. In 1945 he came to Regensburg in Bavaria as a Sudeten German who had been expelled from his home country and found a job with the local railway directorate. In evening courses he acquired the administrative diploma and became chief inspector of the German Federal Railroad . After the dissolution of the Federal Railway Directorate in Regensburg, he was transferred to Nuremberg and promoted to the Federal Railroad Chief Official.

Fischer had been a member of the Eghalanda Gmoi e. V. in Regensburg and since 1960 in the federal board of this association. In connection with these association activities, he built up the Egerland family research group, became head of the Association of Sudeten German family researchers and deputy chairman of the East German family research group (1986-1994). Fischer published family and local history articles in newspapers and magazines and was a corresponding member of the Central Office for Person and Family History - Institute for Genealogy in Frankfurt am Main .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Adolf Fischer on genealogy.net. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ AGoFF website: The history of the executive board of AGoFF ( Memento from October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Adolf Willibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH pipe
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1995
Place of death Nuremberg