Heinrich Gutkin | |
Birth Date: | 13 June 1879 |
Birth Place: | Tallinn, Kreis Harrien, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | 11 October 1941 |
Death Place: | Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Estonian |
Occupation: | trader, Estonian National Assembly member |
Heinrich Gutkin (13 June 1879, in Tallinn – 11 October 1941, in Sverdlovsk Oblast)[1] was a trader and the Estonian National Assembly member.
Heinrich Gutkin was a chairman of the Jewish Union Bank in Tallinn, a clothing store owner and a founding member of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1925 to 1937. He also a chairman of the Jewish Cultural Self-Administration Office. On February 3, 1937 he was appointed to the and served as a representative of the Upper Chamber of the National Parliament.[2] It was the first time that a Jew was appointed to the upper house.[3]
Gutkin was arrested by Soviet security services on 14 June 1941, his property confiscated[4] and was deported to a prison camp in the Soviet Union, where he subsequently died.[5]