Werner Fischer (born November 7, 1939 in

Epfenbach Epfenbach is a municipality in south western Germany. It is located between Heidelberg and Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in the state of Baden-Württemberg. The municipality belongs to the municipal association of Waibstadt and the touris ...

Baden Baden (; ) is a historical territory in South Germany, in earlier times on both sides of the Upper Rhine but since the Napoleonic Wars only East of the Rhine. History The margraves of Baden originated from the House of Zähringen. Baden ...

) is a

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and was between 1980 and 1990 Vice-President and between 1990 and 2005 President of the

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Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the German States of Germany, state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital o ...

in Germany. Werner Fischer received two

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s in 1998: *

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for his engagement in the cooperation of European Universities In 2005 Fischer gets the

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of the Federal Republic of Germany. Fischer is married and has three sons. The oldest is the politician

Axel Fischer Axel Eduard Fischer (born 5 May 1966) is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU and has been a member of the German parliament from 1998 to October 2021, representing Karlsruhe-Land since 2002. Early life and education From 1989 until ...

, the second the politician and pastor Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht.

External links

*http://www.hs-karlsruhe.de/servlet/PB/menu/1007254_pcont_l1/content.html (German!)
Website about Re-Election as President in 2002 on web.archive.org
1939 births Living people People from Rhein-Neckar-Kreis People from the Republic of Baden Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-academic-bio-stub