Wilhelm Drexelius

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Wilhelm Drexelius (born July 31, 1906 in Altona , † March 22, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a lawyer and German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

After graduation Drexelius Law studied at the University of Hamburg and was then a doctorate in law doctorate . He settled as a lawyer in Hamburg and opened a law firm in May 1933 with Clara Gentner , who later became Erich Klabunde's wife , at 54 Neuen Wall . During the National Socialist era, he regularly defended those who were politically persecuted before the courts in Hamburg and Altona . From 1935 - Clara Klabunde had moved to Berlin with her husband to avoid persecution in Hamburg - he ran the firm alone. In 1945 he took Clara Klabunde back into his office. After he had given up his office in 1946 because of his political activities, he was re-admitted to the bar in 1970.

The newly created Wilhelm-Drexelius-Weg in Barmbek-Nord was named after Drexelius in 2010 .

politics

Political party

Drexelius joined the SPD as early as the 1920s and was also involved in the socialist student group.

MP

From 1961 to 1974 Drexelius belonged to the Hamburg citizenship . The citizenship elected him a member of the fifth federal assembly , which in 1969 elected Gustav Heinemann as federal president .

Public offices

In 1946, Drexelius was appointed Senate Syndic of the Legal Office in Hamburg by Max Brauer . In this capacity he took part in the constitutional convention on Herrenchiemsee in 1948 as an authorized representative of the Hamburg Senate . In 1951 he was transferred to the Senate Chancellery in the same position. Even after the election victory of the Hamburg bloc under Kurt Sieveking in 1953, he remained in the office that corresponds to a state secretary in land-based states. On January 1, 1961, he was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. From this he was first sent to the building authorities together with Rudolf Büch as a senator. On December 13, 1961, he moved to the school board. When Herbert Weichmann became the new First Mayor after Paul Nevermann's resignation on June 9, 1965 , Drexelius remained Senator of the school board . After the general election in 1966, he was also second mayor on April 27th. After the state elections in 1970, he left the Senate. As his successor, the Senate sent the previous Senator from the judicial authority, Peter Schulz, to the school authority. The Senate also elected him as the second mayor.

Publications

  • Intentional disability . Bendschneider, Hamburg 1930. (Diss. University of Hamburg 1930)
  • With Renatus Weber : The Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from June 6, 1952. Commentary. Cram, de Gruyter & Co., Hamburg 1953.
    • Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany and Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Board of Trustees for Citizenship Education, Hamburg 1967.
  • Hans Bütow : The great flood in Hamburg . A chronicle of the catastrophe of February 1962 . Compiled by Hans Bülow on behalf of and in cooperation with the school authorities. Foreword by Dr. Wilhelm Drexelius, Senator. School authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg 1963.
  • Dante Alighieri : Divina Commedia . Vol. 1: Facsimile of the Codex Altonensis . Vol. 2: Commentary on the Codex Altonensis . Edited by the school authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg by Hans Haupt with contributions from Hans Haupt, Hans Ludwig Scheell and Bernhard Degenhart . Preface by Wilhelm Drexelius and Hans Rheinfelder. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1965.
  • Lawyer in Hamburg. 1921-1946 . In: In: Herbert Ruscheweyh . 1892 - 1965. Commemorative . Christians, Hamburg 1966, pp. 13-17.
  • Helmut Hofmann (Ed.): 75 years of high school on Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer . 1892-1967. With a foreword from Mayor Wilhelm Drexelius and greetings from Senior Studies Director Dr. Otto Genz and High School Administrator Curt Zahn. Otto Schwitzke, Hamburg 1967.
  • Education and Science Policy. Parliamentarians Conference 1967 . Edited by the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Bad Godesberg 1967.

See also

literature

  • Matthias Drexelius, Geert Henningsen: Wilhelm Drexelius and his ancestors . Hamburg 1986.
  • Meik Woyke: Drexelius, Wilhelm. In: Hamburg biography . Volume 6, 2012, p. 75 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Drexelius, Wilhelm, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Daecke bis Dziekan] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 239 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 212 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).