Emil Borho

Emil Josef Borho (born December 31, 1902 in Schriesheim ; † March 16, 1965 in Bischofswiesen ) was a German administrative officer of the Baden State Chancellery and deputy chairman of the Baden "Jewish Commission" during the National Socialist era .

Life

After school Emil Borho studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich law . At first he passed neither his first nor his second state law examination. In the second attempt he passed both exams and in 1928 began his preparatory service at the Mannheim public prosecutor and was sworn in. In 1932 he became a court assessor , a year later a government assessor . He received his doctorate in 1933 with the dissertation Tariffreue als Fraud, a contribution question of the protection of the workforce .

Politically, he became involved in nationalist parties early on, initially from 1922 to 1925 in the German Baden Party . In 1925 he joined the NSDAP and was given membership number 8250. He also co-founded the Schlageterbund as a replacement for the SA, which was then banned in Baden . From 1927 to June 1933 he resigned from the NSDAP for tactical reasons and on the advice of Walter Köhler in order to improve his professional opportunities. In June 1933 he rejoined the NSDAP. He later received the Party Gold Badge and was treated like an old fighter .

His political commitment led to a rapid rise during National Socialism. On October 1, 1933, he was sent to Berlin as a representative of the Baden State Chancellery. In 1934 he was appointed to the Upper Government Council.

In 1935 he moved to the Baden Ministry of Finance and Economics, initially as a personnel officer. He belonged to the "Jewish Commission" and was responsible for the Aryanization . In 1939 he was made a civil servant for life and in 1941 was made government director.

During the Second World War , as a representative of the Baden government, he was initially considered “ indispensable ”, but later volunteered. In 1944 he was therefore called up and served in France. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the French. In 1945 he was discharged from civil service in absentia.

In 1947 he returned home from captivity. He faced the denazification trial and was charged as the main culprit. In the trial, however, he was able to refute his guilt and downplay the honors given to him. On May 21, 1948 he was exonerated and declared “affected”. His trial was dropped, as was a review process he sought to re-enter the civil service. This procedure has also been discontinued.

However, Bohro returned sick from captivity and was considered 80% severely damaged by war. He was declared unable to work and was able to assert his pension claims. He died on March 16, 1965.

Works

• Pay compliance as a fraud: A contribution to the issue of worker protection . Karlsruhe 1933. (Dissertation)

literature

• Clemens Wöppel: Emil Borho: The "old fighter" . In: Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 34-42 .