Rudolf Fischer (6 March 1901 – 4 June 1957) was a German writer.

[1] After the war, Fischer suffered with health problems, which continued in the post-war era.

He began writing narratives and experienced the demands of state jobs of East Germany.

He worked as a face worker in the Zwickau coal mines as a source of studying.

Rudolf Fischer became known mainly for his novel "Martin Hoop IV" one of the East German critics' highest praised work of socialist realism, in which the authentic collapse through sabotage set off a firedamp in the Zwickau Mine Four from the year 1952 and described its consequences.