Gustav Borgner

Gustav Borgner (born October 17, 1879 in Bielefeld , † January 1959 ) was a consumer cooperative and managing director of GEG , Hamburg.

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family

Gustav Borgner was the son of the staunch cooperative and co-founder of the old Bielefeld consumer association. Gustav Borgner and his wife Hanne Wilhelmine, née Sielemann . He was Protestant. His younger brother was the Hamburg Senator Otto Borgner . He was married to Clare Christine, née Vormfelde.

GEG

At the general assembly on March 10, 1921 in Mainz, Henry Everling was elected managing director of the GEG and Gustav Borgner was appointed authorized signatory , with Friedrich Albert and Josef Bodden. At the same time, these gentlemen became deputy managing directors with the previous authorized signatories Georg Büchlein, Friedrich Hain and Max Josephson . At the general assembly of the GEG in 1930 it was decided to expand the management and to eliminate the establishment of deputy managing directors and to give Max Josephsohn the title and salary of managing director (Josephson was a Jew) but not like Gustav Borgner with Friedrich Albert, Josef Bodden and Andreas Mirus was elected as managing director of the GEG .

After the National Socialists came to power , Gustav Borgner and Henry Everling tried to clarify with Henry Everling on May 4, 1933, at the Hamburg Senate about the intention to bring the GEG into line. They were informed that the appointment of a State Commissioner with full powers for the JIT was planned for May 5th . So it happened. The GEG was formally restructured and renamed on August 14, 1933 to become the Reichsbund der Deutschen Konsumentgenossenschaften GmbH (GEG). After the law of May 31, 1935 for the Reichsbund (GEG) was passed, the company structure was reorganized again. The company was changed again to Deutsche Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft mbH . (Deugro). There was no longer any reference to the cooperative origin in the company name. Gustav Borgner kept his position in the company until 1940 as managing director of Deugro , the last of the GEG executives appointed before the takeover of power . However, Gustav Borgner did not belong to the actual top committee of the Reichsbund and the Deugro at this time . He remained without influence. On April 1, 1941, the GEG was incorporated into the German Labor Front under a holding company that operated as a joint venture of the German Labor Front (GW) .

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, Gustav Borgner returned to GEG. On May 30, 1945, the British military government officially announced that the joint venture (GW) was subject to the supervision of the military government. Henry Everling was appointed general manager, Gustav Borgner and Josef Bodden his deputies. The powers of the management were again restricted by the occupying forces on August 29, 1945. The three gentlemen were also on the board of the consumer cooperative pension fund. On the first consumer cooperative day after the war, on March 26 and 27, 1947, Gustav Borgner was elected as an honorary member of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives that was to be established . Management and supervisory board were also elected there for the GEG , Gustav Borgner as managing director. On September 14, 1948, the trusteeship from May / August 1945 also formally ended for Gustav Borgner. On September 16, 1948, a new management was elected to which Gustav Borgner no longer belonged for reasons of age. However, like Henry Everling, he remained in office until March 31, 1949 while the new managing directors were being trained. He then became a member of the GEG's supervisory board .

death

He died in January 1959 after a brief, serious illness.

Honors

Great Cross of Merit

The Grand Cross of Merit awarded by the Federal President was presented to Gustav Borgner as a member of the GEG Supervisory Board and Managing Director Gustav Dahrendorf in 1954 by the Hamburg Mayor Kurt Sieveking . At the ceremony on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Konsumgenossenschaften (GEG) , the mayor said that these awards would honor everyone who had given their energy to work for the benefit of consumers.

Fish steamer Gustav Borgner

The fishing steamer Gustav Borgner from Gemeinwirtschaftliche Hochseefischerei GmbH, Bremerhaven , (GHG) was named after him. It was built in 1949 at the Seebeck shipyard in Bremerhaven under construction no. 664 built. It was measured with 398.22 gross register tons (GRT), held 3260 basket of fish, was 43.82 m long and 8.04 m wide. The GHG was a subsidiary of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Konsumgenossenschaften mbH (GEG). While caught in Irish waters, the trawler collided on January 5, 1959 with the Dutch steamer Cornelia Maria, SCH 135, which sank and was lost. The ship collided again in the North Sea on July 23, 1961. In spring 1962 the ship was laid up and was sold to Eisen & Metall AG Bremerhaven for demolition.

Notes / individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 10 of January 13, 1959, page 6 Gustav Borgner ( Memento of July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ^ International Genealogical Index; according to church book, 1648–1944 Evangelical Church. Marienkirche Neustadt (Bielefeld) Results for Name: Gustav Borgner Retrieved March 21, 2009.
3. ↑ Cf. Ulrich Bauche : Biographies in the field of tension between ethnic and socio-political exposure: Jewish comrades-in-arms in the Hamburg labor movement Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed March 20, 2009. 
4. ↑ See also the judgment of the Federal Administrative Court of April 25, 2007 on the estate in Osterholz , point 7 [1] pdf 89.6 kB. Accessed April 5, 2009.
5. ↑ Cf. Josef Rieger, Max Mendel, Walther Postelt: Die Konsumgenossenschaft "Produktion", 1899-1949, history of a cooperative consumer association from its foundation to the fiftieth business deal and its predecessors , Hamburg 1949, page 236.
6. ↑ Great Crosses of Merit ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 146, June 28, 1954, p. 7.
7. ↑ Peter Müller: On the history of GHG Gemeinwirtschaftliche Hochseefischerei GmbH, Bremerhaven (GHG) by Peter Müller ( Memento from February 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed March 20, 2009
8. ↑ Ship Date.nl [2]  ( 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. Accessed March 21, 2009  
9. ^ National Archives branch in Gdansk, Gdynia
10. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 74 of March 28, 1962, page 27 [3] , accessed March 20, 2009.

literature

• Wilhelm Fischer : 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894 - 1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954. 362 pages.
• Erwin Hasselmann : History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, 740 pages.
• Josef Rieger, Max Mendel, Walther Postelt: The consumer cooperative "Production", 1899 - 1949, history of a cooperative consumer association from the foundation to the fiftieth business deal and its forerunners , Hamburg 1949.