Bill Drews

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

Life

Drews studied law at the University of Göttingen, where he joined the Corps Bremensia joined. From 1902 to 1905 he held the office of the District Administrator in the Prussian district Oschersleben ( Bode). In 1905, he came as a laborer in the Prussian Prussian Ministry of the Interior. In 1911 he was sent for three years as President of the Government according to Koszalin. In 1914 he came back to the Home Office. After the administration of legal work there while the Drews was responsible for the preparation of an administrative reform, he held from 1917 until the November Revolution of 1918 the office of the Prussian Minister of the Interior. 1921 Drews was President of the Prussian Supreme Administrative Court. In 1927 he published his seminal textbook on Prussian police law.

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

During the Nazi dictatorship Drews President of the Prussian OVG remained. Under his aegis, the Court held to the laws binding the administration. However, a number of decisions were adopted, considerably widened over the extensive interpretation of the police law general clause (§ 14 of the Prussian Police Administration Act ), the intervention of the security agencies. Despite this willingness to adapt Drews was, until his death in 1938 repeatedly target of violent attacks by radical Nazi jurists (including Reinhard Höhn ) who opposed any adherence to the traditional police powers sharp.

After the Second World War went from Drews ' work from the period of the Weimar Republic a lasting impact in the police theory of law of the Federal Republic of.

Family

His father, the lawyer and notary Carl Friedrich Drews ( 1818-82 ), was the Bismarck's legal counsel. His mother Louise (1831-1903) was the daughter of Henry Kratz, owner of the manor Winterhagen near the Bismarck's summer residence in Stolpmünde.

Writings

• Bill Drews, the Prussian police law. General Section. Guide to administrative officials. Heymann, Berlin, 1927.