Heinrich Pick

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Heinrich Georg Pick (born November 16, 1882 in Breslau , † October 28, 1947 in Wiesbaden ) was a German local politician.

Life

Heinrich Pick was born in Breslau as the son of the Jewish bank director and city councilor Georg Pick and Marie-born Sachs. After attending high school in Breslau, Pick studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau . During his studies in 1900 he became a member of the Saxo-Silesia Freiburg fraternity . After his studies he became a trainee lawyer in Freiburg. He was a reserve officer in the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 . At the 25th foundation festival of his fraternity in 1910 he was the keynote speaker with a "speech on the German fraternity" . In 1912 he became city assessor and in 1917 an alderman in Barmen . On January 17, 1918, he married Margarethe Duisberg in Wuppertal-Barmen . From 1920 to 1933 he was mayor of Szczecin . In 1933, after the seizure of power, he and his brother Sigmund Pick resigned from the Saxo-Silesia fraternity . His brother emigrated to England , where he took his own life. Heinrich Pick was the Theresienstadt concentration camp deported . He survived the Holocaust and died in 1947 as a result of an illness in the Wiesbaden city hospitals.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 324.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wroclaw II registry office: birth register . No. 4878/1882.
  2. a b c registry office Wiesbaden: death register . No. 2163/1947.