Ulrich Fischer (politician, 1942)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ulrich Fischer (born December 11, 1942 in Vöcklabruck , Upper Austria ; † July 12, 2020 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

During his school days in Lübeck he was first observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution because of a leaflet . Before its dissolution in 1970, he was one of the most active members in Berlin of the SDS . That year he was convicted of participating in a joint arson attack on the America House in Berlin and served a year imprisonment in Moabit Prison . He later worked as a taxi driver and traveled to many countries around the world. At the beginning of the 1980s he moved to the so-called Fulda Gap and was involved in the peace movement there.

Fischer, who lived in Bad Hersfeld at the time, stood on the state list of the Hessian Greens in the 1983 federal election , but did not make it. On January 20, 1986, he moved up to the Bundestag after Hubert Kleinert also accepted the rotation principle just one year before the end of the legislative period . One of his main focuses was an amnesty law for the imprisoned RAF terrorists . He was not re-elected by the Greens for the next election and was politically active outside parliament in the following years.

Ulrich Fischer was married to his wife Astrid, a former AStA employee at the Free University of Berlin , for many years until his death and they had four sons together. He died suddenly and unexpectedly in his last place of residence in Bonn on July 12, 2020.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (ed.), Bruno Jahn (collaborator): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 214.
  2. ↑ a b c d Hans Halter : Obituary for Ulrich Fischer in 1968 - Was once a revolutionary. In: TAZ Online , August 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vöcklabruck
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2020
Place of death Bonn