Jan Fischer
Jan Fischer · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Statistician who served as caretaker Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2009–2010 and later as Minister of Finance — son of a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz
2 janvier 1951, Prague, Tchécoslovaquie (République tchèque)
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Jan Fischer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Statistician who served as caretaker Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2009–2010 and later as Minister of Finance — son of a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz
Origins and early life
Jan Fischer was born in Prague on 2 January 1951, the son of a Jewish father, a statistician who had survived Auschwitz and other Nazi camps, and of a Catholic mother; he has described a childhood in which the family kept Czech Christmas and his father took him to the synagogue for Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah and Purim until the end of the 1950s, when the family's formal ties to the Jewish community lapsed — the father on whom this fiche rests, and a home, as Fischer himself has put it, of two faiths and no dogma.
He followed his father into statistics, studied at the Prague School of Economics, and spent his career in the Czechoslovak and then Czech statistical service, rising to the presidency of the Czech Statistical Office in 2003; he was a member of the Communist Party from 1980 to 1989, which he has acknowledged and explained as the price of a career, and this fiche notes it.
Work and career
In May 2009, when the government of Mirek Topolánek fell to a vote of no confidence in the middle of the Czech presidency of the European Union, the parties agreed on the non-partisan head of the statistical office as caretaker prime minister, and he led the country from 8 May 2009 to 13 July 2010, completing the EU presidency and steering through the financial crisis with approval ratings that no elected Czech politician had matched.
He ran for president in 2013 and finished third, and served as Minister of Finance in the government of Jiří Rusnok from 2013 to 2014. This fiche is factual and dated.
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Statistician who served as caretaker Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2009–2010 and later as Minister of Finance — son of a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Fischer_(politician)
