Rolf Zick

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 . 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 . Zick achieved his 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, , 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 , which eventually merged with the Zick died in Hanover on 8 March 2024, at the age of 102. == Awards ==

• 1981 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany • 1994 Lower Saxony Order of Merit • 2011 • 2011 Honorary president of • 2020 of • 2021 Honorary president of == Publications ==

• (with Burkhard Nowotny): Hörfunk in Grossbritannien. Privater Lokalrundfunk, Verband Nordwestdeutscher Zeitungsverleger, 1980 • (with Maria Haldenwanger, Rolf Manfred Hasse): Kostbarkeiten in Bibliotheken Niedersachsens, ed.: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Bibliotheken in Niedersachsen, Hannover 1996 • Ich war dabei und habe überlebt ISBN 3-00-002062-4, 1997 (5th edition, 2002) • Die Landespressekonferenz am Puls des Geschehens, LPK, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-00-002338-0 • Landesverkehrswacht Niedersachsen: 50 Jahre jung – Eine Dokumentation, Landesverkehrswacht Niedersachsen, 2001 • Die CDU in Niedersachsen: eine Chronik, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940955-28-9 • 60 Jahre Zahnärztekammer Niedersachsen – Eine Chronik 1949-2009, Zahnärztekammer Niedersachsen, 2009 • Walter Hirche – Ein Liberaler aus Niedersachsen, Georg Olms Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-487-08534-0 • Ein starkes Land im Herzen Europas: die CDU in Niedersachsen 1945 bis 2015, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95721-190-3 • Der letzte Zeitzeuge : Ein halbes Jahrhundert hinter der landespolitischen Bühne, ed. by Presse Club Hannover, Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York 2021, ISBN 978-3-487-08635-4. == References ==