Conrad von Borsig
Conrad von Borsig (until 1909 Conrad Borsig ; born April 23, 1873 in Berlin ; † February 13, 1945 in Prillwitz , Pomerania Province ) was a co-owner of the Borsig works and a dendrologist .
Life
He was the son of Albert Borsig and the grandson of August Borsig . His brothers were Ernst and Arnold . Borsig attended the Luisengymnasium in Berlin-Moabit . He then did a commercial apprenticeship. This included both banking and export business. Stations were Bremen , London and Moscow . When he came of age in 1894, like his brothers, he became co-owner and commercial manager of the Borsig works. In addition, Borsig was a member of numerous supervisory boards. He was also chairman of the employers' association of the German professional associations and the German-Argentinian central association. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Reichsbank . On January 27, 1909, he and his brother Ernst were raised to the Prussian hereditary nobility.
In 1931, the Borsig-Werke had to file for bankruptcy and became the property of the Rheinische Metallwaren- und Maschinenfabrik . In March 1933, Rheinmetall-Borsig was founded as a new company. Conrad von Borsig became deputy chairman of this company. He was also a co-owner of the o. H.-G. Borsig in Berlin and the Borsig-Lokomotiv-Werke GmbH. The latter were a joint venture with AEG . In the time of National Socialism, the works took off again.
Borsig had been living in Pomerania since 1933 on his Prillwitz estate, which he acquired between 1922 and 1924 . Borsig was a member of the German Dendrological Society . He devoted himself entirely to the English-style park , which he enlarged to 30 hectares. In addition, Borsig managed a 370 hectare forest enterprise. From 1933 to 1938 he redesigned the park into a dendrological garden . At the end of the war, Borsig was shot by Soviet soldiers in front of his house. His grave is in the dendrological garden he created. In 1945 it became the property of the Polish state, but was not taken care of until 1975. Both the garden and the manor house have been a listed building since 1976. In 2006 the now dilapidated manor house was restored with state-Polish and EU funds. The “Przelewice Dendrological Garden” is now a popular tourist destination.
literature
- Friedrich Schildberger: Borsig, Johann Friedrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 476 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Munzinger: International Biographical Archive. 01/1948 of December 22, 1947.
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Castles and mansions in Western Pomerania. Commission publisher Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1994, ISBN 3-7921-0534-9 , p. 184 f.
- Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 16 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Lebender: August Heinrich von Borgstede and the beginnings of garden culture in Przelewice. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Lecture given in Prillwitz in October 2006.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borsig, Conrad von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borsig, Conrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Large industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Prillwitz , Pomerania Province |