Fritz Spira

Fritz Spira (1 August 1881 – c. 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor.

He appeared frequently in films during the silent and early sound eras.

Spira played the role of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film The Third Squadron.

Spira had been working in Germany before the Nazi takeover in 1933 compelled him to leave because of his Jewish background.

He would die in 1943 at the Ruma concentration camp in Vojvodina.

Stolperstein for Spira at Behrenstraße 55–57, in Berlin - Mitte