Isidor Fisch
Isidor Srul Fisch (July 26, 1905 – March 29, 1934) was a Jewish German friend and business associate of Bruno Hauptmann, from whom Hauptmann claimed to have received a box containing gold certificates which had earlier been used to pay a ransom in the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh jr.
Fisch was born in Leipzig, but emigrated to America in 1925. Fisch and Hauptmann met in 1932, became friends, and agreed to pool the risks and profits of Fisch's trade in furs and Hauptmann's stock investments. Fisch returned to Germany for a visit in the winter of 1933–1934. According to Hauptmann, on December 5, 1933 Fisch left various items, including a shoe box in which Hauptmann later found the gold certificates in question. Fisch died of tuberculosis in Leipzig, Germany in 1934. One of the gold certificates was identified in circulation on 18 September 1935, although others reportedly appeared in circulation years after Hauptmann's execution.
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