Editing Heinz Fischer (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:The President of Austria, Heinz Fischer is welcomed to ESO’s premises in Santiago.jpg|thumb|Heinz Fischer is welcomed to [[European Southern Observatory|ESO]]'s premises in Santiago.<ref>{{cite news|title=President of Austria Visits ESO in Santiago|url=http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann12097/|access-date=8 December 2012|newspaper=ESO Announcements}}</ref> ]] [[File:Coat of Arms of Heinz Fischer (Order of the Seraphim).svg|thumb|Arms as knight of the [[Royal Order of the Seraphim|Seraphim]]]]
Fischer identifies himself as [[agnosticism|agnostic]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundespraesident.at/newsdetail/artikel/es-kann-auch-das-standesamt-sein-profil/|title=Bundespräsident.at: "Es kann auch das Standesamt sein" profil|website=www.bundespraesident.at|access-date=12 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710071319/http://www.bundespraesident.at/newsdetail/artikel/es-kann-auch-das-standesamt-sein-profil/|archive-date=10 July 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> and as a [[Social democracy|social democrat]]. He and [[Margit Fischer|Margit Binder]] married in 1968. The couple have two grown children.

Despite being members of opposing parties, Fischer was close friends with former ÖVP politician [[Sixtus Lanner]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 July 2022 |title=Former ÖVP General Secretary Sixtus Lanner died at the age of 88 |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000137435846/frueherer-oevp-generalsekretaer-sixtus-lanner-88-jaehrig-verstorben |access-date=19 July 2022 |website=[[Der Standard]] |language=de-AT}}</ref>

He enjoys [[mountaineering]] and has been president of the Austrian [[Friends of Nature]] for many years.