Ernst Bansi

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Ernst Bansi (born January 3, 1858 in Bielefeld , † October 25, 1940 in Quedlinburg ) was a German municipal official and mayor of the city of Quedlinburg.

Life

Bansi was born as the son of the insurance director Gustav Bansi and graduated from high school in 1876. He studied law and economics in Bonn and Berlin . During his studies in 1876 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . He was also musically gifted and played second violin in an orchestra. After he had passed his first state examination in Cologne in 1879 , he worked as a trainee lawyer at the Bielefeld District Court .

In 1880 he joined the 2nd Battalion of the 55th Infantry Regiment Bielefeld as a one-year volunteer .

In 1883 he married. His first son was born in the same year. He completed other legal traineeships with a lawyer at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . Then he was reinstated at the district court. In 1885 he passed his state examination in the Ministry of Justice in Berlin and worked as an assessor .

He decided to work in the area of ​​local government. In 1886 he was elected second mayor in Bielefeld, where he headed the urban poor affairs and introduced the Elberfeld system . In this position he got to know the well-known pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh , who was involved in social affairs . The slaughterhouse, elementary and community school, tax affairs, forest administration and police also belonged to the area of ​​responsibility of Bansis.

Villa Brühlstrasse 3

In 1895 he applied for the position of First Mayor in Quedlinburg. He was elected with 20 of 30 votes and was confirmed in office on May 8, 1895 by royal cabinet order. Bansi was mayor of Quedlinburg for many years. In 1896 he became a member of the district council of the Quedlinburg district . In the same year he had a villa built at Brühlstrasse 3 in Quedlinburg.

In 1898 he introduced home economics lessons at the Quedlinburg girls' elementary school. The city's forest stock was increased in the area of ​​Altenburg and Steinholz.

In the years 1899 to 1901 the town hall was expanded. He saw the construction of a sewer system in Quedlinburg as particularly urgent . Work on this began in 1902. A hospital and secondary school building was built, today's GutsMuths-Gymnasium and a new central cemetery. During his tenure, the construction of the power station began. A municipal bathing establishment with a swimming pool was created.

From 1899 on, Bansi was a member of the provincial council . He held this office until 1931. He was a member of the budget committee.

Bansi was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class.

From 1900 Bansi was Lord Mayor of Quedlinburg. In 1903 the expansion of the previous secondary school into an upper secondary school . In 1908 the Quedlinburg-Thale-Blankenburg railway line was inaugurated.

Bansi had spoken out in favor of making Quedlinburg more of a regimental town. In 1909 the 1st and 3rd battalions and the regimental staff of Infantry Regiment No. 165 were relocated to Quedlinburg.

In 1911, a royal Prussian teacher training college was inaugurated in Quedlinburg, the Ernst Bansi secondary school , which is now named after Ernst Bansi . Quedlinburg received the status of a district-free city . Road breakthroughs were also carried out during Bansi's tenure. In addition, hospitals were merged into a new foundation.

In the period after the end of the First World War , he became involved as a realpolitician and tried to arbitrarily intervene in Quedlinburg in the crises during the Kapp Putsch and the Spartacus uprising .

In 1920 Bansi celebrated his 25th anniversary in office. In his honor, the Brühlstraße was renamed Bansistraße on this occasion.

In 1921 the area formerly used by the cuirassiers as a riding arena was converted into a sports field. When he was re-elected to the provincial parliament that year, he stood for the German People's Party .

After Bansi was made an honorary citizen of Quedlinburg in 1922, he was retired as first mayor of the city in 1924. Bansi was also chairman of the board of directors of the Concordia lignite mine and a member of the supervisory board of the Halberstadt-Blankenburg railway company.

Works

  • My life , Quedlinburg, Schwanecke, 1934
  • Memories , Quedlinburg

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 48.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 105
personal data
SURNAME Bansi, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German municipal official and mayor of the city of Quedlinburg
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1940
Place of death Quedlinburg