Noting that his father, Hans Gerhardt Fischer, was born in Berlin in 1908, Fischer said he was a German citizen, entitled to a German passport.

Bobby Fischer risks being sent to the United States, where he is wanted for defying a presidential order. Chess Pro to Appeal Japan's Decision to Deport Him - Los Angeles Times ...

Fischer has been in custody at Tokyo's Narita International Airport since July 13 for allegedly traveling on a revoked U.S. passport. Had he not appealed, ...

She later left for Moscow where, in 1933, she married Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, living with him there until the late 1930s, qualifying as a doctor at a Soviet medical school.

Fischer was born in Chicago to Regina Wender, a naturalised American of German-Jewish descent. His father is listed on the birth certificate as Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, a German biophysicist and ...

TOKYO – Chess legend Bobby Fischer has told Japanese authorities that he considers himself a German citizen, invoking his German-born father in an attempt to stymie any effort to extradite hi… ...

Bobby Fischer's brother-in-law says he has assembled the documents needed to prove the fugitive chess champion is entitled to German citizenship and should not be deported from Japan to the Unit.

She later left for Moscow where, in 1933, she married Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, living with him there until the late 1930s, qualifying as a doctor at a Soviet medical school.

Chess player; Born March 9, 1943; Died January 17, 2008. Robert "Bobby" James Fischer, former world chess champion, has died of kidney failure in Iceland aged 64. Fischer was born in Chicago to ...