Dr. Ludwig Josef Michael Fischer
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Ludwig Josef Michael Fischer was born in Vienna, the legitimate son of butcher Rudolf Fischer and Josefa, née Julie. After elementary school, he attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna's 1st district, where he graduated in 1907. He then enrolled in law at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1911.
In the 1920s, he worked at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institution [today: General Accident Insurance Institution] and was promoted to Deputy Secretary [today: Deputy Secretary General] in 1937. He marries and starts a family.
A devout Catholic and patriotic Austrian, he joins the Vaterländische Front after 1933, takes on functions there and openly opposes National Socialism. On March 12, 1938, he witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht.
According to a letter from the NS-Rechtswahrerbund of 29.5.1940, Dr. Ludwig Fischer, born on 6.7.1888 in Vienna, civil servant of the social insurance of the Vienna Workers' Insurance Institution, in Vienna 3, Salmgasse 10, was imprisoned from May to August 1938 because of his opposing views and was dismissed from his job without notice and without a pension.
In Vienna, Ludwig Fischer witnessed the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. He joined the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. He does not return to the service of the Workers' Accident Insurance Institution but becomes self-employed and a partner in a trading company.
He dies in Vienna at the age of 78.
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