August Borggreven

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August Borggreven

August (Augustinus) Wilhelmus Johannes Borggreven (born December 9, 1899 in Wisch (Oude IJsselstreek) ; † unknown) was a Dutch National Socialist.

His parents were the shoemaker Wilhelmus Gerhardus Borggreven and his wife Dorothea Johanna Pothoff.

Borggreven, a butter and egg dealer, became a member of the Nationaal-Socialistische Bewegungsing (NSB) of Anton Adriaan Mussert in 1933 . He received the stud book number 10613. Mussert appointed Borggreven after several years as his “authorized representative in special service” (made in Bijzonderen service) . Borggreven later became district manager of the NSB des Achterhoek in the Dutch province of Gelderland . In the years 1940 to 1942 he had founded a training center for the Weerbaarheidsafdeling (WA; German: "Wehrhaftigkeitsabteilung"), the party militia of the NSB, in Terborg (Oude IJsselstreek) , his residence . In late 1941, Borggreven was involved in the recruitment of Dutch artisans to help rebuild Kharkiv (Ukraine), which had been badly damaged by acts of war during the German invasion of Russia.

Mussert commissioned his Gauleiter (districtsleider) AWJ Borggreven "with the processing of the Eastern business". As early as the end of 1941, Borggreven had organized the recruitment of Dutch craftsmen for the German " Werkdienst Holland " (the Dutch factory service ) on behalf of Hans Fischböck , the General Commissioner for Finance and Economics in the Netherlands, and under the direction of the head of the German Central Agency (ZASt), Erwin Nimtz later - probably in May 1943 - was renamed "Ostwerk Ukraine").

As a staunch National Socialist, Borggreven often clashed with the mayor of his place of residence Terborg , JJG Boot.

After the Second World War, Borggreven was sentenced to five years in prison.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Scan of Borggreven's birth certificate (archive link)
  2. ↑ Marcel Hulspas, "Portret van een dappere voedselcommissaris in oorlogstijd (vijf sterren)", in: De Volkskrant, November 30, 2018, https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/portret-van-een-dappere- voedselcommissaris-in-oorlogstijd-vijf-sterren ~ bf569292 /
  3. ↑ Dietrich Eichholtz, "Decay of the Occupation System, Case Study: The Netherlands"; P. 318, in: History of the German War Economy 1939–1945, https://books.google.de/books?id=cnQbDgAAQBAJ&pg=RA2-PA318&lpg=RA2-PA318
  4. ↑ Arend Hulshof, "Rijpstra's ondergang: het lot van een burgemeester in oorlogstijd", p. 63, [1]
  5. ↑ NKCA in 't Veld, De SS en Nederland Documenten uit SS archieven 1935-1945, Part II, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff 1976
personal data
SURNAME Borggreven, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borggreven, Augustinus Wilhelmus Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wisch (Oude IJsselstreek)
DATE OF DEATH after 1945