Fredy Fisher
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Max Henry Fisher (30 May 1922 – 29 August 1993) was a German-British journalist and businessperson. He edited the Financial Times between 1973 and 1980.
Fisher was born in Berlin on 20 May 1922.[1] He was Jewish.[2] He attended the Fichte-Gymnasium in the city. In 1936, his family fled Germany and moved to Switzerland due to the threat posed by the Nazis. Fisher attended Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire between 1936 and 1940. He was sent to an internment camp in Australia due to the wartime "enemy aliens" regulations. He was interned in the country between 1940 and 1942.[1] Starting in 1946, Fisher studied history at Lincoln College, Oxford University, where he received a first-class undergraduate degree.[3]