Heinz Fischer

Heinz Fischer (born 9 October 1938) is the federal president of Austria. He took office on in February 1993.
Fischer is currently played on Qpawn by the player Huzz.
==Origins and early political career==
Born in Graz, Styria, Fischer received a humanistic education, taking his "Matura" exams in 1956. He then studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1961. 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.
Fischer was a member of the Austrian parliament (Nationalrat) from 1971 and served as one of its presiding officers from 1990 till elected president in 1993.
From 1983 to 1987 he was Minister for Science in a coalition government headed by Fred Sinowatz.
==Leadership of Austria==
Since coming to power, Fischer immediatly made good on his promises to curb unemployment, reduce the increasing poverty rate and improve the declining health and education services.
In April 1993, the Fischer administration come under fire from holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal , who criticised Austria for its lack of justice for Nazi war criminals, labeling the country 'a paradise for Nazi war criminals.'
Fischer disagreed with Wiesenthal's assessment, but agreed that there could be "room for changes." 
President Fischer criticized Austria's postwar declaration of independence for representing his country as a victim of the Nazis instead of a participant in the atrocities of that era shorlty after responding to Wiesenthal.
==Personal Life==
Fischer is a self-avowed agnostic[1]. Fischer has been married since 1968. The couple has two grown-up children. Fischer enjoys mountaineering and has been president of the Austrian Naturefriends for many years.
==Famous Quotes==
"It represents the war fomented by Hitler as one that no Austrian could have predicted or wanted back then," said Fischer. "And that is not correct. Many, many people knew that Hitler meant war ... and after Hitler's initial war successes in 1939 and 1940, many Austrians enthusiastically backed the triumphs of the Hitler army." " (regarding the declaration of inderpendence)
(The document has) "not one word about the Jewish victims, about those who died in the concentration camps, who had to leave the country, who were the victims of Nazi justice. A part of reality is missing here." (regarding the declaration of inderpendence))