Eduard Fischer

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Eduard Fischer
Eduard Fischer

Dr. Eduard Fischer, a Jewish colonel (Gendarmerie general) in the Austrian gendarmerie in Bukovina.

With the outbreak of World War I, Bukovina then part of Austro-Hungary was immediately under siege by the Russian armies. The north of Bukovina and Czernowitz the capital fell within a month.

Meanwhile in the unoccupied part of southern Bukovina, an armed resistance group was formed under the command of Colonel Eduard Fischer. His army includes many volunteers additionally to the gendarmerie forces. The key points of resistance were Gura humora and Kimpulung. Fischer fended off the enemy forces, and retook the capital, but only for a short time. The Russians under General Selivanov on November 20, 1914 occupied Czernowitz once again.

Fischer's memoirs, Krieg ohne Heer (War without an Army) Meine Verteidigung der Bukowina gegen die Russen, published in 1935 in Vienna

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  • Eduard Fischer (1935). Krieg ohne Heer : meine Verteidigung der Bukowina gegen die Russen. Franz Schubert ; Josef Lenobel. OCLC 67238475. 
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