Heinrich Gutkin

{{Short description|Estonian businessman and politician}}

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| 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

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| occupation = trader, Estonian National Assembly member

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Heinrich Gutkin (13 June 1879, in Tallinn – 11 October 1941, in Sverdlovsk Oblast){{Cite web|title=Community_before_1940 - Eesti Juutide Arhiiv|url=https://muuseum.jewish.ee/Gallery1/thumbnails.php?album=67|access-date=2020-10-01|website=muuseum.jewish.ee}} 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.{{cite book|title=American Hebrew and Jewish messenger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_upNAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=1 August 2012|date=1 January 1937|publisher=American Hebrew}} It was the first time that a Jew was appointed to the upper house.{{Cite web|date=1937-02-03|title=Jew Named to Estonia's Upper House for First Time|url=https://www.jta.org/1937/02/03/archive/jew-named-to-estonias-upper-house-for-first-time|access-date=2020-10-01|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|language=en-US}}

Gutkin was arrested by Soviet security services on 14 June 1941, his property confiscated{{cite book|last=Hiio|first=Toomas|title=Estonia, 1940–1945: Reports of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity|year=2006|publisher=Estonian Foundation for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity|isbn=9789949130405|page=170}} and was deported to a prison camp in the Soviet Union, where he subsequently died.{{cn|date=August 2024}}