Heinrich Börsting

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Heinrich Börsting (born July 3, 1900 in Horstmar- Schagern, † January 9, 1969 in Münster ) was a German Catholic priest and diocese archivist.

Life

Heinrich Börsting was born on July 3, 1900 as the youngest of seven children on the farm of the same name in Horstmar-Schagern. The brothers Fritz (1883–1951, pastor in Hamburg) and Friedrich Bernhard (1890–1931, canon in St. Remigius Borken ) had also chosen the spiritual profession. Heinrich graduated from high school in 1921 at the Georgianum grammar school in Lingen (Ems) . He completed his theology studies in Münster and in 1922/23 in Freiburg, where he joined the Catholic student association KDStV Falkenstein in the Cartell Association of Catholic German student associations . He was ordained a priest on August 1, 1926 in Münster.

On October 1, 1931, he was appointed the first archivist of the diocese of Münster by the then Bishop Johannes Poggenburg after he had received training in church history and archival studies in Rome and completed this in November 1930 at the Bavarian Archive School in Munich . In June 1936 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy with the dissertation “ The Provinciale Romanum with special consideration of its handwritten tradition ”.

The most important achievement of Börsting was the establishment and inventory of the diocese archives. His aim was to make the not insignificant archive holdings of the Vicariate General and the Cathedral Chapter accessible to the public for scientific research. As early as 1937 he was able to publish the stately "inventory of the diocesan archives in Münster" on behalf of the archives advice center of the province of Westphalia . This inventory is all the more important as the files of the Vicariate General from the 19th century were burned in a bombing raid during World War II.

His special love was photography. In the war-torn Munster, he recorded the extent of the destruction with numerous recordings - sometimes at risk of death.

After the war, the family of the late Bishop Clemens August Cardinal von Galen transferred the destroyed former Galen'sche Konvikt to the diocese of Münster , which has since served as the seat of the diocese archives. In August 1946, Börsting was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia , and in 1968 membership was converted into a corresponding one.

Heinrich Börsting died on January 9, 1969 in Münster and was buried on January 14 in the cemetery in Horstmar.

Writings (monographs)

  • History of the town of Horstmar, its knights, castle men, citizens and farmers . Regensberg, Münster 1928.
  • The Provinciale Romanum with special consideration of its handwritten tradition . Lengerich 1937.
  • Inventory of the diocesan episcopal archive in Münster . Aschendorff, Münster 1937.
  • (with Alois Schröer :) Manual of the Diocese of Münster . Regensberg, Münster, 2nd edition 1946:
    • Vol. 1: History .
    • Vol. 2: Present .
  • History of the diocese of Münster . Deutscher Heimat-Verlag, Bielefeld 1951.
  • History of matriculation from the early church to the present day . Herder, Freiburg 1959.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The archivist, bulletin for German archives , 22nd year, Düsseldorf 1969
  2. ↑ Alois Schröer in Church and Life of January 19, 1969.
  3. ↑ Thomas Flammer, Hubert Wolf (ed.): Münster in the war. Bomb pictures 1943–1945 by Heinrich Börsting . Agenda-Verlag, Münster 2005. ISBN 3-89688-254-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Börsting, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest and diocese archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Horstmar- Schagern
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1969
Place of death Muenster