| Rolf Zick | |
| Birth Date: | 1921 4, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Dransfeld, Province of Hanover, Prussia, Germany |
| Death Place: | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Rolf Zick (16 April 19218 March 2024) was a German journalist.
Zick was born in Dransfeld on 16 April 1921 to a family of teachers. His father was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1924 to 1933, and a member of the de|[[Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold]]. Zick reported that his sister was killed under the Nazi regime among the although her name is not officially listed, and his father was degraded and relocated under the de|[[Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums]].
Zick achieved his de|[[Abitur]] at the in 1939 and was then drafted to the Wehrmacht. He experienced 70 bombings of Hanover as a FLAK commander, and was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1948 during which he reports being abused for medical experiments.
He then began his career as a journalist with local news in Göttingen. He moved to Hanover in 1960 and reported for decades on state politics in Lower Saxony. He founded an independent press office in 1974, German: Nordreport, and worked as its chief. He also served as president of the state press conference of Lower Saxony from 1971 to 1990.
His daughter Anne-Maria Zick continued the de|Nordreport, which eventually merged with the Zick died in Hanover on 8 March 2024, at the age of 102.