Private Life
Fischer has consistently been the among the most popular German politicians, for several years holding a leading position in opinion polls, even among supporters of other parties. This popularity may be attributed to the rise of The Greens as well as to his office as foreign minister of Germany, which continues to be one of the most prestigious political offices in Germany.
Until 1996, Fischer had been an outspoken connoisseur of good wines and food (regularly betting cases of expensive wine with opposition politicians on the outcome of elections) and had some body weight. Within a relatively short time he managed to lose a visible amount of weight. He claimed that this was due to his giving up alcoholic drinks completely and changing his diet to a vegetarian one. He had also been doing fitness training and even running marathons. He covered the topic of his weight loss by writing the book My Long Race Towards Myself on his experience, which became an immediate bestseller. During the months preceding the Iraq War, Fischer began putting on weight. Fischer married Iranian Minu Barati in 2005.
In 2004, commissioned the project of own coat of arms (a bourgeois type) by German heraldist Dieter Krieger, who registered was at Rhein-Main Wappenrolle. Arms is a type of a "Canting arms"; party per fesse silver and gules, in chief crossed axes with red blades and black handles, in base, a fish in the first. Crest of the red eagle's wings, mantling red doubled silver.
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