Václav Fischer (born 22 June 1954) is a Czech-German businessman and politician. He founded CK Fischer and

Fischer Air Fischer Air, briefly rebranded to Charter Air, was a Czech airline headquartered in Prague and based at Ruzyně International Airport. History The airline was established 1996. It was owned by the K&K Capital Group (75%) and (25%). In 2005 it was ...

. He attended the

Prague University of Economics and Business The Prague University of Economics and Business (PUEB) (originally: ''the University of Economics, Prague''; '' cs, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, VŠE'') is a triple crown accredited economics and business-oriented public university loc ...

. After graduating from Internal Commerce Studies, Fischer moved to Switzerland for a short time, then he based in

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(then

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) and

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, where he worked for some travel agencies and a shipping company. In 1980 Fischer founded in Germany his own travel agency called Fischer Reisen. Due to his success, after the

Velvet Revolution The Velvet Revolution ( cs, Sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution ( sk, Nežná revolúcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 28 November 1989. Popular demonstrations agains ...

that ended the Czechoslovak communist dictatorship, Fischer decided to return to Czechoslovakia to establish the subsidiaries of his companies in the country, as well as to expand to other Central European countries, such as

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and

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. In 1995, he acquired some air routes of the airline

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to create his own company,

. Fischer won a seat in the

Senate of the Czech Republic The Senate (), literally "Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic", is the upper house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The seat of the Senate is Wallenstein Palace in Prague. Structure The Senate has 81 members, chosen in ...

in the 1999 by-election for the Prague 1 with 71.24% of the votes. Fischer is the first openly LGBT Czech parliamentarian.https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/revue/spolecnost/elegan-vaclav-fischer-v-krizi.A030818_112047_lidicky_lf

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Václav Fischer's profile
in the

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1954 births Businesspeople from Prague Members of the Senate of the Czech Republic Czech LGBT businesspeople Czech LGBT politicians Politicians from Prague Czech people of German descent Prague University of Economics and Business alumni Living people LGBT legislators German businesspeople in transport {{CzechRepublic-politician-stub