FISCHER

HUNGARY (see also List of Individuals)

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23.1.1878 Nagykáta/H - 26.1.1937 Budapest/H

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Frigyes Fischer graduated as a civil engineer from the Budapest University of Technology in 1899. He then commenced his practical activities at the Civil Engineering Bureaus of Sátoraljaújhely in North-eastern Hungary, Pozsony - today's Bratislava - and in Komárom at Danube River in Northern Hungary. He was actively involved in the regulation works of the Morava River, and in the drainage works of Krassó-Szörény County. In 1918, after the Austrian Empire had been reorganized following World War I, Fischer joined the Ministry of Agriculture, and there prominently dealt with fisheries and fish breeding. In 1936, he was appointed head of the Department for Hydraulic Engineering of the Ministry. His main writings include topics in environmental engineering, mainly relating to studies in fishery and fish breeding, as also the effect of rivers on fish habitat.

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The Morava River is the most important river of Moravia, which derives its name from it. The river originates at the Králický Snĕžník Mountain in the northwestern corner of Moravia, near the border between the Czech Republic and Poland and has a nearly southern trajectory. The lower part of the river course forms the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and then between Austria and Slovakia. The lowlands of the Morava River were swampy, mainly in Lower Austria and the fertile plain between Moravia and Bratislava. The average annual discharge of the river is some 120 m3/s. After a course of some 350 km, the Morava River meets the Danube in Bratislava-Devín. Before 1918, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire included large parts of Eastern Europe, from the Adriatic Sea to today's Southern Poland, and from Switzerland to today's Ukraine. Following the Versailles Treaty in 1919, today's Austria was defined with a tiny surface as compared to pre-war territory. For Hungarians such as Fischer, it was therefore evident to work all over Eastern Europe before 1919, and only later his activities were mainly restricted to today's Hungary.

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_{Fischer, F. (1928). A halászati törvények és a rájuk vonatkozó rendeletek összeáll (Acts concerning fishery and related orders). Szernö: Budapest.}

_{Fischer, F. (1929). Tógazdaságok (Fish breeding). Vízügyi Közlemények 11: 103-112.}

_{Fischer, F. (1932). Kvassay Jenő emlékének megörökítése (Commemorating Jenő Kvassay). Vízügyi Közlemények 14(1): 6-8.}

_{Németh, E. (1937). Frigyes Fischer. Vízügyi Közlemények 19(1): 5-6. P}