Bernhard Kamnitzer
Bernhard Kamnitzer (25 October 1890 – 15 July 1959) was a German jurist and Senator of the Free City of Danzig.
Biography
Kamnitzer was born in Dirschau (modern Tczew, Poland), he studied law at the Universities of Danzig (modern Gdansk) and Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad).[1] Kamnitzer served in World War I and was severely wounded, he later worked as a lawyer and a judge in Danzig. He was a member of the executive board of the Centralverein Danziger Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (CV; Central Association of Danzig Citizens of Jewish faith), of the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig and the Danzig parliament in 1924-28. He was Senator (minister) for Finances of the Free City of Danzig between 1928 and 1931.[2] In 1938 Kamnitzer emigrated to Great Britain and later to the United States, where he became President of the American Danzig Association.[3]
Kamnitzer died in New York City.[4]
References
- ^ Echt, Samuel (1972). Die Geschichte der Juden in Danzig (in German). Rautenberg. p. 260. ISBN 9783792100950.
- ^ gonschior.de (in German)
- ^ Aly, Götz; Gruner, Wolf (2008). Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-45; Deutsches Reich 1933-37 (in German). Bundesarchiv, Institut für Zeitgeschichte. p. 205. ISBN 978-3-486-58480-6.
- ^ Leo Baeck Institute
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- 1890 births
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- People from Tczew
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- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States