Edward Banks

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Edward Bartels Banks (born January 1, 1836 in Hamburg ; † May 22, 1883 there ) was a Hamburg lawyer and member of the Reichstag .

Banks was a son of the Hamburg lawyer and federal envoy Edward Banks . Johann Heinrich Bartels was his grandfather, Otto Beneke was his brother-in-law. Banks went to school in Hamburg and later in Lubeck the Katharineum until graduation Easter 1855. He then studied in Tübingen and Göttingen law . In Tübingen he became a member of the Germania fraternity in 1855 .

After traveling around the world for almost a year and a half, he settled in Hamburg as a lawyer in 1860. In 1865 Salomon Abendana Belmonte joined the firm.

Banks was elected to the Hamburg Parliament in 1866 , to which he belonged as a member of the Left Party . Banks was elected as a candidate for the German Progressive Party in the Reichstag election in 1871 for the Hamburg 2 constituency. In 1874 he lost his constituency to Hermann Joachim Eduard Schmidt . In a by-election in 1874 he was able to win the mandate for the Berlin constituency 6. In 1877 he was defeated by Wilhelm Hasenclever and left the Reichstag.

In 1883, he committed suicide in Hamburg suicide .

Individual evidence

  1. Kellinghusen, article in the NDB
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 523
  3. a b Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 46.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 46-47.
  • Bernd Haunfelder : The Liberal Members of the German Reichstag 1871-1918. A biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06614-9 , p. 51.

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