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Fischer, Bram, 1908-1975

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Personal name headingFischer, Bram, 1908-1975
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Variant(s)Fischer, Abram, 1908-1975
Fischer, Braam, 1908-1975
Associated countrySouth Africa
Birth date1908-04-23
Death date1975-05-08
Place of birthBloemfontein (South Africa)
Place of deathBloemfontein (South Africa)
AffiliationGrey College National Union of South African Students Communist Party of South Africa University of Oxford South African Institute of Race Relations
Profession or occupationLawyers Political activists
Found inBram Fischer, 1998: CIP data sheet (b. 1908; d. 1975)
LC data base, 11-03-97 (hdg.: Fischer, Braam, 1908- )
Dict. of African biog. (Fischer, Bram (Abram), 1908-1975)
Meredith, M. Fischer's choice, c2002: t.p. (Bram Fischer) p. 9 (b. April 23, 1908) p. 154 (d. May 8, 1975)
Herauts de la liberteĢ, 197-?: t.p. (Abram Fischer) p. 29 (South African attorney; convicted of treason)
ZAR.co.za website, Biographies, Special South Africans, viewed Dec. 5, 2013 (Bram Fischer, revolutionary, 23 Apr. 1908-8 May 1975; b. into Afrikaner family; Rhodes scholar to Oxford; rejected traditional South African views on race relations, joined the Communist Party of South Africa while practicing as a corporate lawyer; led defense of Nelson Mandela at Rivonia trial, 1963; disbarred in 1965; arrested 1966, sentenced to life in prison; released a few months before his death of cancer)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fischer, Bram; Abram Fischer; lawyer, antiapartheid activist; born 23 April 1908 in Bloemfontein, South Africa; attended school at Grey College; became the first nationalist prime minister of the National Union of South African Students Student Parliament (1929); won a Rhodes Scholarship, which took him to Oxford University (1932); took up Joint Council work; was active in the South African Institute of Race Relations; joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA); was elected to the Johannesburg District Committee of the CPSA and by 1945 to the Central Committee; during the 1950s and 1960s, his key contributions were the defense in two major political trials - Treason Trial and the Rivonia Trial; in 1965 he was himself arrested, sentenced to life imprisonment. and spent nearly the rest of his days in Pretoria Central Prison.; died May 1975 in Bloemfontein, South Africa)