Ministerialrat Dr. Rudolf Fischer

Rudolf Fischer attended the Bundesgymnasium in Horn, where he graduated in 1933. Four years earlier, in 1929, he had already joined the secondary school fraternity Waldmark Horn. He studied law in Vienna and joined the student fraternity Pflug in 1936. He completed his doctorate in 1938 and then worked as a court clerk.

After the Anschluss, he was questioned about his father, the Christian-Socialist mayor of Horn. From May 1938, Rudolf Fischer was active in various resistance groups, such as the 'Geheimgruppe Gottfried Lerch' (resistance movement "Austro-European Resistance (AER)"), also in court and after his conscription into the Wehrmacht in the Breitensee and Meidling barracks as well as in the group around Major Carl Szokoll.

In addition, he worked with the resistance group 'Resistance hospitals', which was increasingly tasked with military resistance as the collapse approached. On April 6, 1945, he managed to escape from the general command. He was able to go into hiding under a false name until the liberation of Austria.

After the war, Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl appointed him his secretary. He later became Director of the Vienna Rectorate Chancellery and Ministerial Councillor in the Federal Chancellery.