Willi Banike

Christof Willy "Willi" Banike (born July 3, 1900 in Amberg , † September 27, 1970 in Iserlohn ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Willi Banike was born as the son of an engineer in the Upper Palatinate. After graduating from high school in Hattingen in 1918 , he began studying law at the universities of Würzburg , Berlin and Münster , which he completed in 1922 with the first state examination in law. During his studies in 1919 he became a member of the Germania Würzburg fraternity . He received his doctorate in law in 1922 , passed the Second State Examination in Berlin in 1926 and then worked for a short time as a judge. From September 1926 he worked as a lawyer at the district court and regional court in Bochum . In 1933 he was approved as a notary.

Banike joined the NSDAP in 1925 under number 26,788, also joined the SA and last held the rank of Oberführer there. In 1931 he participated in the founding of the Bochum local group of the NS-Juristenbund , which he later headed as district chairman. In this role he represented National Socialists in criminal proceedings. Furthermore, he acted as a department group leader in the lawyers' group and as a department head in the management of the NSDAP district of Westphalia-South .

From March 12 to December 15, 1933, he was Bochum's city ​​councilor and was elected head of the city council on April 7, 1933 . In April 1934 he was appointed special representative for the Bochum city administration. After the flight of Dortmund's Lord Mayor Ludwig Malzbender and the brief temporary takeover of the business by Bruno Schüler , Banike officiated as Lord Mayor of Dortmund on August 30, 1934 . In addition to his function as mayor, he took on numerous positions in commercial enterprises, including as a member of the VEW supervisory board . In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a reserve officer , but only served as a war correspondent at home, most recently as a major in the reserve.

Towards the end of the Second World War , on March 30, 1945, Banike appointed Hermann Ostrop as his successor as Lord Mayor, but remained in office until April 12, when he evaded the approaching US armed forces to the Sauerland and thus evaded captivity. In 1948 he was in the course of denazification in a denazification procedures classified as a member in category III (lesser offenders), but was able to practice as a lawyer.

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 , p. 46.
• Walter Först: State and Federation . Contributions to the modern history of the Rhineland and Westphalia, vol. 9. Kohlhammer: Grote, Cologne 1981, p. 52.
• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46): Biographisches Handbuch . Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 , p. 113.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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.