Bernhard Kamnitzer

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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

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]

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