Fritz Tobias (3 October 1912 – 1 January 2011) was a German writer, government official and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was Ministerialrat in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and was then in the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Lower Saxony.In the 1960s, he became known by his statements to the Reichstag fire. An "amateur historian", Tobias had taken the trouble to explore the history of the events in Berlin on 27 February 1933. According to his findings the Nazis were not guilty and the historically-significant arson would have been the action of Marinus van der Lubbe alone. Most historians agree that Tobias was correct. Source: Wikipedia (en)