Eldor Borck

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Eldor Karl Romanus Borck (born April 16, 1888 in Stettin , † April 14, 1951 in Kellinghusen , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German officer , police officer and politician ( DNVP , DKP-DRP ).

Life and work

Eldor Borck was born the son of a businessman. After graduating from the Royal Marienstifts- und Stadtgymnasium Stettin, he served in the Prussian army . On May 1, 1906, he joined the foot artillery regiment No. 2 as a flag junior , became an officer and later moved to the foot artillery regiment No. 17 . In addition, he temporarily commanded a military-technical academy. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier , and as a general staff officer in the second half of the war. On July 19, 1919, he switched to the service of the security police and directed their establishment in East Prussia . In 1921 he became a major in the police force in Berlin . He founded the Association of Police Officers of Prussia and was temporarily its chairman. On April 1, 1923, at his own request, he resigned from the police service as a pensioner in order to continue his studies of political science and economics at Berlin's Humboldt University , which he had already begun during his service, but which he broke off after three semesters. At the end of 1924, Borck entered private industry and in the following years was managing director and co-owner of the machine sales company Borck GmbH & Co. He was also a member of the advisory board of the Berlin National Club . From February 24 to November 1, 1933 he served as police chief in Stettin. Although he was subsequently put into temporary retirement, he remained in the business area of ​​the Szczecin District President. From 1938 to 1945 he was an officer in the Wehrmacht High Command , most recently as a colonel.

politics

During the Weimar Republic Borck was a member of the DNVP and deputy national leader of the Stahlhelm in Pomerania . From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament , where in 1933 he was deputy chairman and managing director of the DNVP parliamentary group.

In September 1945 he participated in the founding of the German Conservative Party in Schleswig-Holstein and in early 1946 became its state chairman there. After the merger of the DKP with the German rebuilding party to form the DKP-DRP, the DKP provided him with the party's zone leadership together with Otto Schmidt-Hannover . However, this was rejected by the British military government . But even without an office at the zone level, he sought financial support for the DKP from Alfred Hugenberg , which he did not see himself in a position to because his accounts had been blocked by the military government.

Borck took part in the negotiations of the DKP-DRP with the German party and the Hessian National Democratic Party on July 1, 1949 about a joint election to the 1949 Bundestag election for his party together with Wilhelm Jaeger , Leonhard Schlueter , Ludwig Schwecht , Lothar Steuer and Adolf von Thadden part. Although the plans had advanced quite far, they ultimately failed. The reason was the declaration by the British military government that a merger party would not receive a license and would therefore not be able to run for election. Since the DKP-DRP had not yet received a state license in any federal state, he then negotiated with the German party in Schleswig-Holstein, where the DKP had received 3.1% of the vote in the state elections in 1947, about the provision of list places and direct candidates. The negotiations failed because the DP state chairman Hans Ewers , former DKP district chairman in Lübeck, had asked the DKP that Borck should not run under any circumstances. In the end, the DKP-DRP received state licenses for the Bundestag election and Borck ran for his party in Schleswig-Holstein, but without winning a mandate. When parts of the DKP-DRP, especially the Lower Saxony state association, united with the National Democratic Party to form the German Reich Party in early 1950 , Borck was one of the minority that upheld the previous party under the name National Rights . In Schleswig-Holstein the NR continued to call itself the German Conservative Party and in 1950 participated in the "German election bloc" made up of CDU , FDP , DP and Schleswig-Holstein farmers' and rural people's party , without, however, being given a promising place on the list. Shortly before the age of 63, Borck died unexpectedly of a heart attack in his home town of Kellinghusen .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death register of the Kellinghusen registry office No. 49/1951.
  2. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger, German Conservative Party - German Right Party , in: Stöss, Party Handbook , Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11838-2 , p. 983.
  3. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger, German Conservative Party - German Right Party , in: Stöss, Party Handbook , Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11838-2 , p. 1018.
  4. ↑ Borck's letter to Hugenberg dated May 3, 1946, a copy in the Borck estate in the Federal Archives.
  5. ^ Answer from Hugenberg to Borck dated May 16, 1946, original in Borck's estate in the Federal Archives.
  6. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger, German Conservative Party - German Right Party , in: Stöss, Party Handbook , Westdeutscher Verlag , Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11838-2 , p. 1002 f.
  7. ↑ So Borck on July 22, 1949 in a letter to Lothar Steuer, a copy in the Borck estate in the Federal Archives.

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personal data
SURNAME Borck, Eldor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borck, Eldor Karl Romanus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, police officer and politician (DNVP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1951
Place of death Kellinghusen , Schleswig-Holstein