What is Oskar Fischer?
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0901-038, Oskar Fischer (cropped).jpg|thumb|Fischer in 1989]] '''Oskar Fischer''' (19 March 1923 &ndash; 2 April 2020) was an [[East Germany|East German]] politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the [[German Democratic Republic]] from 1975 to 1990.<ref name=gwu>{{cite web|title=Document 23|url=http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB294/doc23_trans.pdf|publisher=George Washington University|access-date=4 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Leaders of East Germany|url=http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/gdr.htm|publisher=Terra|access-date=5 September 2012|archive-date=1 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901010106/http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/gdr.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Foreign Affairs|url=http://rulers.org/egergovt.html|publisher=Rulers|access-date=5 September 2012}}</ref> Fischer was the first member of the East German cabinet to visit [[Pope John Paul II]] at [[the Vatican]] in 1978.<ref name=twjour>{{cite news|title=Pope meets East German, Names Aide|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E04aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nCkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6829,5177149&dq=oskar+fischer&hl=en|access-date=3 September 2012|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|date=29 January 1979|location=The Vatican City}}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was born in [[Aš]], [[Czechoslovakia]]. Fischer died on 2 April 2020 in [[Berlin]], aged 97.<ref>[https://www.rtl.de/cms/langjaehriger-ddr-aussenminister-oskar-fischer-gestorben-4517284.html Langjähriger DDR-Außenminister Oskar Fischer gestorben] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403141259/https://www.rtl.de/cms/langjaehriger-ddr-aussenminister-oskar-fischer-gestorben-4517284.html |date=2020-04-03 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fischer, Oskar}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Czechoslovak people]] [[Category:A