http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/06/12/rudolf-fischer-his...
Can anyone figure out how Rudolf Fischer is descended from Chatam Sofer?
Rudolf Fischer, born September 17 1923, died February 18 2016
Rudolf Fischer was born on September 17 1923 in the medieval city of Brasov, Kronstadt, in the Transylvania region of Romania. His father, Josef Fischer, was a Hungarian Jew, a descendant of the Hatam Sofer, the 19th-century leader of the Haredic movement which resisted modernisation and mysticism. His mother, Bertha Meldt, was a Saxon Lutheran. Rudolf attended the local Saxon school. But talk of war prompted his father to migrate with him to Australia, leaving his wife and younger son behind, for fear that the older one, Rudolf, would be enlisted.
