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

CK Fischer Cestovní kancelář FISCHER, a.s. is the second largest Czech travel agency by revenue. History In 1991 German travel agency Fischer Reisen GmbH set up its Czechoslovak subsidiary. In 1994 Václav Fischer became its sole owner. In 2003 holdi ...

and Fischer Air. He attended the

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. After graduating from Internal Commerce Studies, Fischer moved to Switzerland for a short time; he was then 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 his own travel agency in Germany called Fischer Reisen. Due to his success, after the

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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 Air. Fischer won a seat in the

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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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in the

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1954 births Living people Businesspeople from Prague Members of the Senate of the Czech Republic Czech LGBTQ businesspeople Czech LGBTQ politicians Politicians from Prague Czech people of German descent Prague University of Economics and Business alumni LGBTQ legislators German businesspeople in transport Czech gay men 21st-century Czech LGBTQ people Gay politicians {{CzechRepublic-politician-stub