Eduard Fischer (general)

Major General Dr. h. c. Eduard Fischer, 1862–1935, Knight of the Maria Theresa Order,[1] was a colonel (later Gendarmerie major general) commanding the Austrian gendarmerie in Bukovina.

With the outbreak of World War I, Bukovina (then part of Austro-Hungary) was immediately under siege by the Russian armies.

Meanwhile, in the unoccupied part of southern Bukovina, an armed resistance group was formed under the command of Colonel Eduard Fischer.

Fischer fended off the enemy forces, and retook the capital, but only for a short time.

[2] He is buried in Vienna, in the cemetery Hietzing, in a grave of honour, Group 49, Number 234.