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state chairman of the
Communist Party in 1956. At the time the Styria party organization was undergoing an profound internal crisis in the wake of the Soviet intervention in Hungary. Fischer was the first non-Styrian leader to be put in charge of the state party organization since the legalization of
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and headed the
Educational Political Commission of the Central Committee of KPĂ–. He remained a member of the Central Committee of KPĂ– until 1964. Fischer opposed the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. In response to the shift in KPĂ– in 1971-1972, as the party reversed its initial
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gave him permission to leave the country. In
Austria he worked as party official of the Communist Party. Between 1946 and 1951 he was the District Chairman of the Communist Party in Favoriten. In 1950 he was included in the Central Committee of the party. He was the
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in August 1941, where he set up German-language radio broadcast. In
February 1942 he returned to Moscow where he was provisionally placed in charge of the German-language radio broadcasts. In June 1942 he was put in charge of the Austrian broadcasts of
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Czechoslovakia in January 1935. Fischer and his family travelled with a small group of other Austrian communists from Czechoslovakia towards the Soviet Union via Poland. They reached Moscow in February 1935.
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Fischer was recognized as an 'Ex-Austrian' refugee. In May 1939 he moved back to the Soviet Union. In Moscow he was involved in a proposition to launch an Austrian broadcast on
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was founded he became a member of the new organization. Between 1922 and 1923 he was the student affairs editor of the social democratic newspaper
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along with Josef BrĂĽll. When the uprising was defeated
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1950-1951. Between 1951 and 1956 he headed the
Agricultural Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Austria.
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was elected as the new Styria state chairman of the
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medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party official.
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condemnation of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia and adopted a more pro-Moscow line, Fischer left the party.
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Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, New York.
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From the beginning of the 1960s he spent a lot of time translating Russian poetry, translating works of poets like
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in 1964. From 1966 onwards Fischer was a member of the editorial board of
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Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933–1945
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and built a communist study group among other inmates at the camp.
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between 12 August – 19 December 1934. He joined the
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