Tomas Fischer

Tomas Fischer
Born
Tomas Jörgen Fischer

(1940-12-01)1 December 1940
Härnösand, Sweden
Died15 August 2022(2022-08-15) (aged 81)
Saint Barthélemy, France
Occupation(s)Book publisher, businessman

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]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Death of financier Tomas Fischer". Expressen (in Swedish). 16 August 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  2. ^ Lindberg, Tommy (11 January 2010). "Thomas Fischer risks tax evasion". StNu (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2022 – via Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ Edling, Lotta (28 August 2001). "Stenbeck acquires Fischer Partners". Affärsvärlden (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  4. ^ "About the publisher". Bokförlaget Fischer & Co (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 21 September 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2022 – via Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ "Honorary members". Norrlands nation (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2022 – via Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ "Honorary members". Stockholms nation (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2022 – via Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ "Financier Tomas Fischer is taxed with over SEK 100 million". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 3 July 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2022.