Fisher, Frederick John (1878–1941)

US automobile body manufacturer. Along with his five brothers, he formed a very successful business that custom built car bodies. This became the Fisher Body Corporation with an annual capacity of 370,000 units. The firm became a division of General Motors (GM).

He was born in Sandusky, Ohio. He and his brother Charles formed the Fisher Body Company in Detroit and they were soon joined by their other brothers Alfred, Lawrence, William, and Edward. In 1919 General Motors and William C Durant bought a 60% interest in their company and agreed to buy almost all of its car bodies from Fisher for the next ten years. The Fisher family retained managerial control of the firm and after World War I built the world's largest car body factory in Cleveland. When Fisher Body became a division of GM, each of the brothers had a post within the corporation.