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Ruth Fischer (11 December 1895 – 13 March 1961) was an Austrian and German Communist, and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) in 1918. Along with her partner Arkadi Maslow, she led the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) through both the May 1924 and December 1924 federal elections.
She was the co-founder of the Communist Party of Austria, became famous as the chair of the Communist Party of Germany in the Weimar Republic and, after 1945, was associated with the anti-communist crusade in the United States where she authored the best-selling book Stalin and German Communism.
Ruth O'Connor Fisher is the widow of Nathaniel Fisher and mother of three. Ruth married Nathaniel Fisher in 1965 after becoming pregnant with her first child, Nate, who was born while Nathaniel was serving in Vietnam.
Fischer, Ruth (1895–1961) German-born American political commentator and scholar, founding member of the Austrian Communist Party and major personality of the German Communist Party in its formative years, who became a fierce anti-Stalinist and was regarded as one of the leading experts on Communism in the Western world.
Fischer and Maslow are best remembered as the ultraleft leaders of the Communist Party of Germany for a brief period in the mid-1920s. The third figure in their leadership triumvirate, the KPD’s Orgleiter Werner Scholem, has also been the subject of a door-stopper biography by one of Keßler’s students: Hoffrogge 2018.
FISCHER, RUTH (née Eisler, also known as EIfriede Golke or Friedlaender; 1895–1961), Austrian Communist. Born in Leipzig, Ruth Fischer studied philosophy, politics, and economics at the University of Vienna where her father, Rudolph *Eisler , was a professor of philosophy.
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Mar 24, 2011 · Ruth Fischer (1895-1961), once ranking among Germany's and Europe's most prominent women, is today largely forgotten in the English-speaking world.
