Max Henry Fisher; Former Financial Times Editor

Max Henry Fisher, 71, former editor of the Financial Times and the executive credited with transforming that newspaper into Britain’s leading financial newspaper and an influential European journal. A native of Germany, Fisher was interned in Britain as an enemy alien at the outbreak of war and later sent to Australia. When he was released in 1942, he volunteered for the British army and served in France. Before joining the Financial Times in 1957, Fisher worked for the Foreign Office for seven years as an editor of documents on German foreign policy. Fisher was a Financial Times reporter before becoming foreign editor, assistant home editor, deputy editor and editor. He developed the newspaper into an influential journal of opinion with incisive editorials. After the launch of the Frankfurt edition in 1980, he left the newspaper to become a director of a British merchant bank. In London on Sunday of undisclosed causes.