Theodor Fischer (politician)
Theodor Fischer (born June 16, 1895 in Zurich ; died July 18, 1957 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss politician of the front movement .
Life
Fischer was the son of a German carpenter and a Swiss mother. Between 1910 and 1913 he completed an apprenticeship in a Zurich architecture firm. In 1912 he was naturalized in Birr in the canton of Aargau . During the First World War he was a border soldier.
From 1923 he worked as an architect. In 1927 he founded the right-wing extremist organization “Schweizer Ring”. In 1931 he was the founder and "leader" of the National Socialist Federal Workers' Party (NSEAP). In 1933 he was one of the main defendants in the trial of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" ( Bern Zionist Trial ) in Bern. In 1934 he moved to Munich. In 1935 he was expelled from the Volksbund (Switzerland) . From 1937 he lived first in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1943 in Strasbourg. In 1944 he returned to Zurich. In 1945 there was another trial in which he was acquitted.
literature
- Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the “Anti-Semitic International” . Zurich: Chronos, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 , short biography p. 528
- Martin Finkenberger: Fischer, Theodor , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 234f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politicians of the front movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1957 |
| Place of death | Zollikon |