Karl August Fischer
Karl August Fischer (born May 3, 1885 in Augsburg , † January 16, 1975 in Munich ) was a German civil servant and politician. After the end of the Second World War, he temporarily headed the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior in Fritz Schäffer's cabinet .
Life
Fischer passed his Abitur in 1904 at the St. Anna grammar school in Augsburg. He then studied law and political science on a scholarship from the Maximilianeum Foundation in Munich . After graduation, he entered the administrative service of the Kingdom of Bavaria , where he held various positions in the district offices of Starnberg , Wegscheid , Grafenau , Kulmbach , the government of Lower Bavaria , the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, the Reich Economic Office in Berlin and from 1920 to 1927 in Bavarian Ministry of Culture went through. In 1927 he took over the post of board member in the Pfaffenhofen adIlm district office .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists and the co-ordination of the Bavarian State Parliament at the end of March 1933, the Bavarian Minister of Education, Hans Schemm, brought Fischer back to his home as Ministerial Director. He kept the post after Schemm's death under his successor Adolf Wagner until he was sent to Prague as curator of the German universities in 1940 . There he had contact with the historian Fritz Valjavec .
After the end of the war, from June 6 to September 1, 1945, he was entrusted by the Regional Military Government of the US Army in the provisional cabinet of Fritz Schäffer with the provisional management of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. Fischer then no longer played a role in rebuilding the parliamentary structures in Bavaria.
Before the First World War he worked as an editor for the Caucasian Post . Between 1935 and 1939 he chaired the board of trustees of the Maximilianeum . From 1951 to 1955, Fischer was director of the Southeast Institute , after having chaired its board of trustees since 1933.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl August Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl August Fischer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Annalen, 11, 1976, p. 241
- ^ Mathias Bernath : Karl August Fischer. In: Südost-Forschungen , 34, 1975, p. 1.
Karl August Fischer (arr., 1945) | Josef Seifried (1945–1947) | Willi Ankermüller (1947–1950) | Wilhelm Hoegner (1950–1954) | August Geislhöringer (1954–1957) | Otto Bezold (1957–1958) | Alfons Goppel (1958–1962) | Heinrich Junker (1962–1966) | Bruno Merk (1966–1977) | Alfred Seidl (1977–1978) | Gerold Tandler (1978–1982) | Karl Hillermeier (1982–1986) | August Lang (1986–1988) | Edmund Stoiber (1988-1993) | Günther Beckstein (1993-2007) | Joachim Herrmann (since 2007)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Karl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1975 |
| Place of death | Munich |