Ernst von Borsig junior
August Ernst von Borsig (born October 16, 1906 in the Borsig Villa Reiherwerder in Berlin-Tegel ; † September 1945 in Landsberg an der Warthe ) was a German landlord, resistance fighter against National Socialism and member of the resistance group / program group Kreisauer Kreis .
family
Borsig jun. was the youngest of four children of the industrialist Ernst von Borsig ( Borsigwerke ) and Margarete Gründler.
He was married to Barbara Freiin von Müffling, daughter of the imperial German legation councilor Hans Freiherr von Müffling (1878–1914), royal Prussian first lieutenant . Res. And company commander in the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot , and Anna (Annette) von Siemens (1886–1965), co-owner of the Wendisch Ahlsdorf , Reinsdorf and Nonnendorf (Niederer Fläming) estates near Jüterbog .
life and work
In 1933, Borsig took over the Groß Behnitz estate in Groß Behnitz , a Havelland village west of Nauen from his father and managed it until the end of the Second World War.
In his only book, which deals with agricultural policy, von Borsig dealt with the Nazi plans, which in certain circles, primarily around the German labor front and from the area of the Artamans , e.g. B. Heinrich Himmler , Walther Darré , discussed a "reagrarization" of Germany by dividing large estates into full-time farming jobs which are to be filled by unemployed industrial workers:
"Reagrarization ... in the sense of a change in the structure of our economy by enlarging the agricultural sector at the expense of the industrial sector is out of the question, rather an expansion of agricultural production can only take place proportionally with industrial production."
The wishes of the von Borsig districts were the official objectives of the Nazi agricultural policy until autumn 1939.
Ernst and his brother Karl became opponents of National Socialism. Ernst von Borsig jun. joined, like some of his schoolmates from the Roßleben monastery school , the Kreisau Circle resistance movement , which met several times in a conspiratorial manner on the estate from 1941 to 1944.
After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , several members of the Kreisau Circle were arrested and executed. Borsig jun. was spared. At the end of April 1945 he was arrested by the Soviets after refusing to leave the estate. He died in Soviet captivity in Landsberg an der Warthe in September 1945.
Works
- Reagrarization of Germany? Fischer, Jena 1934
literature
- Ernst-Friedrich Harmsen: Ernst von Borsig. Märkischer squire and opponent of National Socialism . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945256-25-1
notes
- ↑ At the conferences on agricultural policy in Braunschweig in 1936 and Ulm in 1938, according to Nazi sources, these views were expressly confirmed: Zeitschrift Raumforschung und Raumordnung , 2nd year 1938, p. 38
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borsig, Ernst von junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borsig, August Ernst von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borsig-Villa Reiherwerder , Berlin-Tegel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1945 |
| Place of death | Landsberg on the Warta |