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Fritz Spira
Spira, ca. 1910
Born	Jakob Spira 1 August 1881 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	c. 1943 (aged 62) Ruma, Occupied Yugoslavia
Occupation(s)	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1910–1935 (film)
Spouse(s)	Lotte Spira (m. 1905- div. 1934) Charlotte Andresen (m. ?-1943)
Children	Camilla Spira Steffie Spira

Fritz Spira (1 August 1881 – c. 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared frequently in films during the silent and early sound eras. Spira played the role of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film The Third Squadron. Spira had been working in Germany before the Nazi takeover in 1933 compelled him to leave because of his Jewish background. He went first to Poland, then returned to his native Austria. Following the Anchluss he tried to leave, but was arrested. He would die in 1943 at the Ruma concentration camp in Vojvodina.

Family

He was married to Lotte Spira from 1905-1934 and was the father of the actresses Camilla Spira and Steffie Spira. Camilla would survive the Holocaust because her mother signed a statement swearing that Fritz was not Camilla's natural father, despite her being an adult.^[1]