Fischer is a locality in the lower Mid North of South Australia between Gawler and Mallala.

Britain and Prussia were at that time staunch allies, having combined to defeat the French armies of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

That era resulted in much of the British Royal family and the colony of South Australia being descendant from Prussian stock.

The Fischer family settled the area after arrival on one of the early colonial ships.

In the 1970s or 1980s the SA Government released a plan for the area to feature a new satellite city,[citation needed] to relieve the pressure on the expanding capital Adelaide, to the south.