Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer GColIH bornOctober 1938 is an Austrian politician and the outgoing President of Austria. He took office onJuly 2004 and was reelected for a second and last term onApril 2010. Fischer previously served as Minister of Science from 1983 to 1987 and as President of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria , he suspended his party membership for the duration of his presidency.
Fischer was born in Graz, Styria, which had recently become part of Nazi Germany following Germanys annexation of Austria in March 1938. Fischer attended a grammar school high school which focused on humanities and graduated from there in 1956. He studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1961. In 1963, at the age of 25, Fischer spent a year volunteering at Kibbutz Sarid, northern Israel. Apart from being a politician, Fischer also pursued an academic career, and became a professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck in 1993.
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