Edward Banks (politician)
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.{{cite web|work=Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach|edition=9 |title=Die Mitglieder des Deutschen Reichstags|url=http://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/selectmaske.html?pnd=133430413&recherche=ja|page=156|date=9 May 1871|publisher=Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München| accessdate=31 January 2016}} His great grandfather, William Banks, was an English merchant who had relocated to Hamburg.{{cite web|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd116049553.html|author=Hans Kellinghusen |title=Banks, Edward 1795-1851|work=Neue Deutsche Biographie (This source is an entry concerning the father of Edward Bartels Banks (1836-1883), and spells out the family's English provenance and other kinship connections.) |date=1953| page=576| volume=1| publisher=Duncker & Humblot, Berlin & Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München|accessdate=31 January 2016}}
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 {{Interlanguage link multi|Otto Beneke|de}} (1812–1891).
He attended school in Hamburg and Lübeck, before moving on to study Law at Tübingen and Göttingen. 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 to work as a lawyer. In 1865 {{Interlanguage link multi|Salomon Abendana Belmonte|de}} joined the firm.
In 1866 Banks was elected to the Hamburg Parliament 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 as a Progressive Party candidate, representing a Hamburg electoral district. In the 1874 election he lost his seat to the National Liberal {{Interlanguage link multi|Hermann Joachim Eduard Schmidt|de}} but was still able to gain a seat in the 1874 assembly, representing a Berlin constituency following a bye-election.{{cite web|work=Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach|edition=10 |title=Nachträge und Berechtigungen zu den Biographischen Notizen|url=http://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/selectmaske.html?pnd=133430413&recherche=ja| page=10|date=10 February 1874|publisher=Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München| accessdate=31 January 2016}} He lost his seat in 1877, however.
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