Bill Drews

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Wilhelm Arnold Drews (born February 11, 1870 in Berlin ; † February 17, 1938 there ), called Bill Drews , was a German lawyer .

Life

Bill Drews studied law at the University of Göttingen , where he joined the Corps Bremensia . In Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1892 with a dissertation on the banknote and its position on money . Until 1896 he was a trainee lawyer at the Supreme Court . In 1897 he was hired as an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior . In accordance with the custom of the career of ministerial officials, his work in the Ministry of the Interior was interrupted by two assignments in subordinate authorities: From 1902 to 1905 Drews was district administrator in the Oschersleben district and from 1911 to 1914 regional president of the Köslin district . Returned to the Ministry of the Interior in 1914 with the rank of Undersecretary , Drews u. a. entrusted with the organization of the reconstruction in East Prussia after the winter battle in Masuria and in 1917 with the preparation of an administrative reform.

On August 5, 1917, he was appointed Prussian Minister of the Interior. He held this office until the November Revolution of 1918. In May 1919 the new Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Heine , appointed him as Prussian State Commissioner for Administrative Reform (until 1923). In 1921 Drews was appointed President of the Prussian Higher Administrative Court (OVG). He also taught at the German University of Politics . In 1927 his groundbreaking textbook on Prussian police law was published . It was a standard work that was continued by various editors after his death.

As President of the Prussian OVG and an important advisor to the Ministry of the Interior, Bill Drews exerted lasting influence on Prussia's police reform policy during the Weimar Republic . He is considered to be the creator of the Prussian Police Administration Act of 1931, which became the model for all current police laws.

Drews had been a member of the Wednesday Society since 1927.

During the Nazi dictatorship , Drews remained president of the Prussian OVG until 1937. Under his aegis, the court upheld the administration's legal obligations. However, a number of decisions were made which, through an extensive interpretation of the general clause under police law (Section 14 of the Prussian Police Administration Act), considerably expanded the security authorities' ability to intervene. Despite this willingness to adapt, Drews was repeatedly the target of violent attacks by radical Nazi lawyers (including Reinhard Höhn ), who fought against any adherence to traditional police law, until his death in 1938 .

Tombstone of Bill Drews in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

After the Second World War, Drews' work from the time of the Weimar Republic had a lasting effect on police law teaching in the Federal Republic.

Bill Drews died just a few days after his 68th birthday on February 17, 1938 in Berlin. He was buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: 16-A-20/21). The final resting place of Bill Drews was dedicated as an honor grave of the state of Berlin from 1987 to 2009 . In the meantime the grave has been dissolved; The last resting place of the politician Hermann Scheer is located in the same place today . However, Bill Drews' tombstone has been preserved and was repositioned as a memorial stone in field 11a.

family

His father, the judiciary and notary Carl Friedrich Drews (1818-1882), was Bismarck's legal advisor. His mother Louise (1831–1903) was the daughter of Heinrich Kratz, owner of the Wintershagen manor near Bismarck's summer residence in Stolpmünde .

Fonts

  • The banknote and its position in relation to money . Dieterich'sche Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, Göttingen 1892.
  • Basics of an administrative reform . Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1919.
  • Prussian police law. General part. Guide for administrators . Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1927.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Maus: The full professor and his salary. The legal status of the legal professorships at the universities of Berlin and Bonn between 1810 and 1945 with special consideration of the income situation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012 (= Bonner Schriften zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 4). ISBN 978-3-8471-0027-0 . P. 393.
  2. ↑ a b Stefan Naas: The Origin of the Prussian Police Administration Act of 1931 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003. p. 23.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Neugebauer , Karl Erich Born (Ed.): Handbook of Prussian History. From the empire to the 20th century and major themes in the history of Prussia . de Gruyter, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-11-014092-6 . P. 147.
  4. ^ Bernd Haunfelder : The Münster government presidents of the 20th century . District government Münster, Münster 2006, p. 52.
  5. ^ The 9th edition appeared in 1986 under the title Hazard Defense. General police law .
  6. ↑ Stefan Naas: The Origin of the Prussian Police Administration Act of 1931 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003. p. 2 and p. 220.
  7. ^ Klaus Scholder : The Wednesday Society. Protocols from intellectual Germany 1932–1944 . Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1982. ISBN 3-88680-030-X . P. 16 and pp. 53-59.
  8. ^ Klaus Scholder: The Wednesday Society . Severin and Siedler, Berlin 1982. p. 16.
  9. ↑ Andreas Schwegel: The Police Concept in the Nazi State. Police law, legal journalism and judiciary 1931-1944 , Tübingen 2005.
  10. ↑ Martin Otto: "Self-administration is not a fixed term once and for all" - on Bill Drews' publications after 1933 . In: Archiv für Polizeigeschichte , Vol. 14 (2003), pp. 20–26.
  11. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . P. 195.
  12. ↑ Personal details . In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , vol. 19 (1914), col. 493.

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personal data
SURNAME Drews, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drews, Wilhelm Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1938
Place of death Berlin