 His father then took the family to Oliva, near Danzig and Königsberg in East Prussia, finally settling in Berlin in 1935.Upon graduating from "Gymnasium" (secondary school) in 1935, Wick applied to the officer candidate course of the new German Air Force.Scoring well on the suitability tests, he was accepted into the German military on 6 April 1936 at the Luftwaffe officer candidate school in Dresden, after completing compulsory Reich Labour Service.