Arthur Drews (District Administrator)

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Arthur Drews (born April 16, 1884 in Berlin ; † 1964 ) was a Prussian district administrator and police chief .

Life

The son of police officer Anton Drews (1851-1926) and Rosa Pohlmann (1852-1910) studied law in Berlin from 1904 to 1907 . He then worked as a court trainee and from 1912 as a court assessor in Opole, before he was deployed as a free corps fighter in Silesia in the First World War . As a first lieutenant in the reserve of the Guards Grenadier Regiment No. 5 and wounded twice, as well as awarded the EK I and the Silesian Probation Badge , Drews returned from the mission in 1919.

After serving as a government assessor in 1919 and a year later as a councilor, in 1921 Drews became the provisional district administrator of the Torgau district in the Merseburg administrative district of the province of Saxony and successor to Günther Gereke . In 1922 he finally took over this office, which he administered until 1925. He was then transferred to the Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province in Duisburg , where he was promoted to the Upper Government Council. In 1930 he was appointed police president of Aachen , where he was replaced after the National Socialists came to power in March 1933. Drews received a new position in the Schneidemuhl government . But just one month later, in September 1933, he was offered a position as an unscheduled department head in the Merseburg government . Here he worked until the end of the war and then, since he was not a member of the NSDAP , he became department head of the Merseburg government, which had been repealed in the Soviet zone of occupation. He held this position until the final closure of his office in June 1947.

Since 1904 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDSt.V. Bavaria Berlin and from 1830 member of Club Aachener Casino .

literature

  • Walther Hubatsch (founder): Outline of the German administrative history 1815-1945. Row A: Prussia. Volume 6: Thomas Klein: Province of Saxony. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1975, ISBN 3-87969-118-5 , p. 149.
  • Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : History of the Club Aachener Casino. Reissued by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens on behalf of the board of directors after preliminary work by Carl von Pelser-Berensberg and August Schumacher . 2nd Edition. Print Metz, Aachen 1964, p. 251.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Acta Borussica (PDF; 2.0 MB)


personal data
SURNAME Drews, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1964