Václav Fischer

{{Short description|Czech-German businessman and politician}}

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| name = Václav Fischer

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| order = Senator from Prague 1

| term_start = 28 August 1999

| term_end = 23 November 2002

| predecessor = Václav Benda

| successor = Martin Mejstřík

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1954|06|22}}

| birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia

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| alma_mater =Prague University of Economics and Business

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

He attended the Prague University of Economics and Business. After graduating from Internal Commerce Studies, Fischer moved to Switzerland for a short time, then he based in Berlin (then West Germany) and Hamburg, where he worked for some travel agencies and a shipping company. In 1980 Fischer founded in Germany his own travel agency called Fischer Reisen. Due to his success, after the Velvet Revolution 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 Hungary, Slovakia and Poland.{{cite news|title=A Slavic sun king|url=http://www.economist.com/node/666620|newspaper=The Economist|date=21 June 2001|accessdate=22 December 2016}}

In 1995, he acquired some air routes of the airline Condor Flugdienst to create his own company, Fischer Air.{{citation needed|date = May 2018}}

Fischer won a seat in the Senate of the Czech Republic in the 1999 by-election for the Prague 1 with 71.24% of the votes. Fischer is the first openly LGBT Czech parliamentarian.{{cite news|title=An Unusual Kind of Tolerance|url=https://www.respekt.cz/respekt-in-english/an-unusual-kind-of-tolerance|newspaper=Respekt Magazine|date=23 August 2013|accessdate=22 December 2016}}https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/revue/spolecnost/elegan-vaclav-fischer-v-krizi.A030818_112047_lidicky_lf