Kurt Fischer (politician)

Kurt Fischer (1 July 1900, Halle (Saale) – 22 June 1950, Bad Colberg) was a German politician (KPD, SED).

Because of his involvement in the March Action he fled Germany for the Soviet Union and worked as a teacher.

Until the outbreak of the Second World War, Fischer was a spy for the GRU in China and was temporarily a military advisor to Mao Zedong.

[citation needed] Immediately after the end of the Second World War, Fischer was sent to the Soviet occupation zone as an employee of Anton Ackermann in the KPD initiative group for Saxony , and in May 1945 he was appointed deputy to Dresden's Lord Mayor Rudolf Friedrichs.

On July 12, 1948 he was appointed General Inspector to succeed Erich Reschke as President of the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI) When the German Democratic Republic was founded , the Ministry of the Interior emerged from the DVdI, and Fischer was appointed head of the Volkspolizei on October 12, 1949.