Wilhelm Arnold Drews, known asBill Drews (11 February 1870 – 17 February 1938), was a Germanlawyer and administrator. Bill Drews was the creator of thePrussian 1931 police administrative law, which became the model for all German police regulations.[1]
Drews studied law atGöttingen where he was a member of theCorps Bremensia fraternity. From 1902 to 1905 he was commissioner of the county of Oschersleben before joining the Kingdom of Prussia's Ministry of Interior.
He was Prussian Minister of the Interior from 1917 to 1918. In 1919, he was responsible for the overhaul of public administration in the then-newFree State of Prussia, and urged the creation of a rigidly organizedstate police force to supplement uncoordinated localpolice forces.[2]
Drews became president of thePrussian Superior Administrative Court in 1921. In 1927 he publishedPreußisches Polizeirecht, a textbook on police administration. Under his presidency, the court generally upheld the principle of theRule of Law after the takeover of German government by theNazi party, though it also allowed a substantial extension of police rights. Until his death in 1938, Drews was the repeated target of attacks by Nazi lawyers promoting the introduction of theFührer principle into public administration.[3]
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