{"id":6309,"date":"2024-07-02T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lehnhardt-stiftung.org\/2024\/07\/profile-tobias-fischer\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:43:46","slug":"profile-tobias-fischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenken-sie-kindern-gehoer.net\/en\/2024\/07\/profile-tobias-fischer\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Tobias Fischer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tobias Fischer, MSc was the first child in Germany to receive a multichannel cochlear implant. The surgery was performed by Prof. Ernst Lehnhardt in 1988.<\/span>
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Tobias was born in 1984 in Wetzlar, Germany. At the age of three, he lost his hearing after contracting bacterial meningitis.<\/div>\n
With the support of his parents, Dr Bodo Bertram and the early intervention center in Friedberg, he learned to hear and speak again.<\/div>\n
With his cochlear implant, he was able to attend a regular school.<\/div>\n
He then completed an apprenticeship as a communications electronics technician and studied at the University of Applied Sciences Gie\u00dfen Friedberg.<\/div>\n
He graduated with a B.Eng. in Microsystems Technology and Electronics.<\/div>\n
In 2007, he received his second Cochlear Implant in Frankfurt a.M..<\/div>\n
During his studies, he met his future wife and moved to Vienna in 2009 to live with her.<\/div>\n
From 2011-2013 Tobias completed a part-time Master\u2019s degree in Innovation and Technology Management with the title MSc.<\/div>\n
Since 2009 he has been working for an aerospace company as a systems engineer.<\/div>\n

In his spare time, he provides support to other CI users and hearing impaired people.<\/p>\n

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