Tomas Fischer

Tomas Jörgen Fischer (1 December 1940 – 15 August 2022) was a Swedish book publisher and businessman.^[1]

He was born in Härnösand, and later grew up in Sundsvall.^[2] He began to work with financier Erik Penser.^[1] With Penser, they both had worked as stockbrokers at the Carnegie Investment Bank. In 1983, Fischer established his own business which was called Fischer & Partners, which in 2001 was sold to the village Invik.^[3]

Fischer had taken the enterprise for the investment company Skanditek. He had bought the book publishing company Author's Publishing House, which he had given the new name Fischer & Co. Publishing House.^[1] It was later sold to Lind & Co.^[4] Fischer had worked with Sven Philip-Sörensen, in which they've both been involved at the Confidencen. In the 1980s, he was suspected of being involved in an investigation of the assassination of politician and statesman Olof Palme.^[1] It had happened with his appearing to fund Ebbe Carlsson's investigation about the assassination.^[1]

Fischer resided in Saint Barthélemy in 1994.^[1] He served as an honorary member of the student society Norrlands nation and also the Stockholms nation.^[5][6] Fischer was honored with the medal Ordre national du Mérite. In 2010, he was implicated in a debate of the government agency Swedish Tax Agency, which was about his residing place.^[1] The government agency had asserted that Fischer lived in Sweden. He was imposed with over 100 million SEK,^[7] in which there was a case that was taken to the supreme court.^[1]

Fischer died in August 2022, having drowned next to his home in Saint Barthélemy, at the age of 81.^[1]