Rolf Zick Explained

Rolf Zick
Birth Date:1921 4, df=y
Birth Place:Dransfeld, Province of Hanover, Prussia, Germany
Death Place:Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Rolf Zick (16 April 1921 – 8 March 2024) was a German journalist.

Life and career

Rolf Zick was born in Dransfeld on 16 April 1921 to a family of teachers. His father was a member of the SPD from 1924 to 1933, and also a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold. Zick reported that his sister was killed under the Nazi regime among the, but her name is not officially listed. and his father was degraded and relocated under the Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums.

Zick achieved his Abitur at the in 1939 and was then drafted to the Wehrmacht. He experienced 70 bombings of Hanover as a FLAK commander. Zick was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1948 where he was abused for medical experiments, according to his reports.

Zick then began his career as a journalist with local news in Göttingen. He moved to Hannover in 1960 and reported for decades about state politics of Lower Saxony. He founded an independent press office in 1974, Nordreport, and worked as its chief. He served as president of the state press conference of Lower Saxony from 1971 to 1990.

His daughter Anne-Maria Zick continued the Nordreport, which merged with the . Rolf Zick died in Hannover on 8 March 2024, at the age of 102.

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  1. https://www.webarchiv-server.de/pin/archiv03/0803ob23.htm Löblicher Beitrag: Erlebnisbericht eines Kriegsgefangenen