Edward Bartels Banks (1 January 1836 – 22 May 1883) was a lawyer who became a politician and a member of the newly established
Reichstag (German parliament) in 1871.
His great grandfather, William Banks, was an English merchant who had relocated to
Hamburg
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Life
Banks came from a political family. His father,
Edward Banks (1795–1851), was a
Hamburg Syndicus while his maternal grandfather,
Johann Heinrich Bartels (1761–1851) had been a mayor of the city.
[ A brother in law was the writer-historian (1812–1891).
He attended school in Hamburg and Lübeck, before moving on to study ]Law
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at Tübingen
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and Göttingen
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. While at Tübingen he became a member of the Germania student fraternity.[Helge Dvorak: ''Biografisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft.''Band/Volume I Politiker, Teilband 1: A-E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 46.] After an eighteen-month world tour, in 1860 he settled back in Hamburg
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to work as a lawyer. In 1865 joined the firm.
In 1866 Banks was elected to the Hamburg Parliament
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where he sat as a member of the left-wing group. In 1870 he served in the militia in the war against France, and following unification stood successfully for election to the new German Reichstag
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candidate, representing a Hamburg electoral district.[ In the 1874 election he lost his seat to the ]National Liberal
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but was still able to gain a seat in the 1874 assembly, representing a Berlin
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constituency following a bye-election.
References
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1836 births
1883 deaths
German people of English descent
German Lutherans
German Progress Party politicians
Members of the Hamburg Parliament
Members of the 1st Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 2nd Reichstag of the German Empire
19th-century Lutherans