Robert Fischer (born 22 August 1883 in Lüdenscheid; missing in 1945 in

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) was a notable German unionist and social democratic politician (

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After an elementary education he completed an apprenticeship as metal processor and pursued this trade until 1906. From 1906 to 1911 he was the chief executive officer of the regional branch of the German Metalworkers' Union (Deutscher Metallarbeiterverband) in Lüdenscheid. In this time he was also a worker's secretary and agitation leader of the

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of Germany (SPD) in Lüdenscheid. From 1911 to 1919 he was chief executive officer of the Metalworkers Union in Bremerhaven and on the board of directors of the local Consumers' Co-operative from 1914 onwards. In 1919 he was again chief executive officer of the regional branch of the Metalworkers Union in Lüdenscheid and officially to 20 July 1925 a member of the City Council Lüdenscheid. An uncompleted strike in November 1923 was regarded as a failure by Fischer and as an internal union consequence he gave up his post in Lüdenscheid. He then became a managing director of the Metalworkers Union in Elbing at the Baltic Sea. He was later director of the State Employment Agency (Arbeitsamt) in

, until he was relieved of his office in 1933 by the

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(NSDAP). Fischer represented the social democratic politicians and activists of the trade-unionism, who abolished the German Imperial Monarchy (

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) and established the first parliamentarian German Republic, known as the

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or officially as

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. Fischer was a victim of the

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s' terrorism in his professional life and most likely the Nazi regime was responsible for his death in 1945. He was also a journalist for the party and union press.40 Jahre Deutscher Metallarbeiter Verband, Verwaltungsstelle Bremerhaven, September 1891/1931

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fischer, Robert 1883 births 1945 deaths Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians German trade unionists 20th-century German politicians

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