Bernhard Kamnitzer
Bernhard Kamnitzer (25 October 1890 – 15 July 1959) was a German jurist and Senator of the Free City of Danzig.
Biography[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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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