Bernhard Kamnitzer

Kamnitzer was born in Dirschau, he studied law at the Universities of Danzig and Königsberg.^[1] Kamnitzer served in World War I and was severely wounded, he later worked as a lawyer and a judge in Free City of Danzig. He was a member of the executive board of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, 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]