Herbert von Borch (sociologist)

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Herbert Hermann von Borch (born November 17, 1909 in Swatau, China , † July 25, 2003 in Munich ) was a German sociologist , journalist and publicist . He was the son of the German diplomat Herbert Kuno Eberhard von Borch (1876–1961).

Childhood, youth and family

He was born in China during the German Empire as the son of the then German ambassador Herbert Kuno Eberhard von Borch . His family came from the German nobility . Regardless of his father's civil service, his parents attached great importance to an education and upbringing that was independent of the Wilhelmine school system, with a focus on music, craftsmanship and sport. They therefore made it possible for him to visit the rural education home Freie Schulgemeinde Wickersdorf in Thuringia . There he learned in the spring of 1920 that his father was negotiating a peace treaty with the German Reich in Beijing with China. The German-Chinese agreement on the restoration of the state of peace was finally signed on May 20, 1921.

When his teacher and headmaster Martin Luserke left school in the spring of 1925 to found the reform pedagogy school by the sea on the North Sea island of Juist with his colleagues Rudolf Aeschlimann , Fritz Hafner and Paul Reiner , Herbert von Borch was one of the sixteen Wickersdorf students who had theirs Teachers followed there. His parents agreed to this change. He passed his Abitur in 1928 at the school by the sea . In the same year his father became the German ambassador to China, an office which he held until 1931. Herbert von Borch studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg a. a. with Karl Jaspers and received his doctorate in 1933 with Alfred Weber on a sociological topic. Sociology and history were his main areas of interest throughout his life.

Professional career

As a journalist he joined the editorial team of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in 1933 , for which he worked until 1943, from 1935 to 1939 as its foreign correspondent in the Italian capital Rome . On August 1, 1938, he became a member of the NSDAP and on September 8, 1939, he began working as a member of the press advisory board at the German embassy in Rome. From January of the following year he received a service contract from the Foreign Office for this activity. As soon as he ended his collaboration with the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung", in June 1944 he moved to the work of the Plenipotentiary of the Greater German Reich at the Italian government as a consultant in the political and press departments.

After the Second World War he resumed his journalistic and journalistic work and in 1949 founded the periodical Foreign Policy , which he published initially monthly and later quarterly together with Heinrich Bechtholdt , Waldemar Besson , Kurt Birrenbach , Herbert Gross , Walter Hallstein , Kurt Georg Kiesinger , Erich Kordt , Hans Rothfels , Carlo Schmid , Helmut Schmidt , Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz or Hans Georg von Studnitz until 1998. The English-language edition was entitled German foreign affairs review .

Between 1953 and 1956 he was the foreign policy editorialist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and from 1956 to 1965 he was the foreign correspondent for the daily newspaper Die Welt in the United States , based in Washington, DC Due to its change in political orientation to the right, he left the paper. Herbert von Borch said that he had lived "in a kind of intellectual alienation from the general attitude of the paper". In 1966 he switched to the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a USA correspondent . He returned to Germany in the late 1970s.

The weekly magazine Der Spiegel described him as one of the cleverest observers of the American scene, the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt counted his daily political reports and sociological analyzes from the USA "among the best that the German press has written about America". The weekly newspaper Die Zeit described him as a great expert on America. For a whole generation of Germans he had shaped their image of the United States in a tangible, imaginable and understandable way with his large, sociological analyzes and reports ( Der Tagesspiegel ).

Works

  • Divine Right - a historical-sociological attempt on the legitimation of religious rule . Junker & Dünnhaupt Verlag, Berlin 1934
  • Mussolini: Life, Struggle, State , Verlag des Italien-Beobachter , Rome 1943
  • as editor: Man and the great cultures. A selection . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld, Hanover 1951
  • Bibliography on the history and sociology of the civil service . Research Committee for the Science of Politics, Alfred Weber Institute for Social and Political Sciences, Heidelberg 1952
  • as translator: Portrait of Europe . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1952
  • NATO. The structure of the Atlantic community . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1953
  • Authority and Resistance. On the political sociology of the civil service . Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1954
  • as translator: Berlin - Moscow: Germany a. Russia between d. two world wars . German publishing house, Stuttgart 1954
  • with Alfred Weber : Introduction to Sociology . Piper Verlag, Munich 1955
  • Kenryoku to teikô - Kanryôsei no seiji shakaigaku . Misuzu Shobô, Tôkyô 1958
  • The unfinished society. America: Reality and Utopia . Piper Verlag, Munich 1960
  • America, the unfinished society . Piper Verlag, Munich 1961
  • Kennedy - The new style in world politics . Piper Verlag, Munich 1961
  • America - country, people, cultuur . Het Wereldvenster, Baarn, 1961
  • USA, société inachevée . Édition du Seuil, Paris 1962
  • The unfinished Society . Hawthorn Books, New York City, 1962
  • La società incompiuta - L'America: realtà c utopia . Bompiani, Milano 1965
  • Preface to Gangsters Urge to Power by Robert F. Kennedy . Scherz Verlag, Munich 1965
  • Peace despite war - areas of tension in world politics since 1950 . Piper Verlag, Munich 1966
  • USA-China: Glass Bead Games of Power Politics , 1972
  • with Johann Albrecht Cropp : USA: Between New York a. San Francisco . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1971. ISBN 978-3-7991-5669-1
  • as editor and co-author: The great crises of world politics. A documentation. The Cold War after 1945 - Indochina - Hungary - Suez Canal - Berlin - Cuba - Prague - Middle East . List Verlag, Munich 1984. ISBN 978-3-471-77155-6
  • John F. Kennedy, America's Unfulfilled Hope . Piper Verlag, Zurich and Munich 1986. ISBN 978-3-492-05203-0
  • America - Decadence and Greatness . Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986. ISBN 978-3-596-23495-0

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert von Borch . In: Munzinger archive. From: munzinger.de, accessed on April 2, 2017
  2. ↑ Kurt Schirmer , 5th paragraph. From: tsingtau.org, accessed April 2, 2017
  3. ↑ Herbert von Borch . In: Who's Who. The People Lexicon ; Retrieved April 2, 2017
  4. ↑ Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945, Ed. Foreign Office, Schöningh Verlag, Volume 1, pp. 227f.
  5. ↑ Foreign Policy (German edition); German foreign affairs review (English language edition) DNB 010005471
  6. ↑ a b c Daily Newspapers - Face and Faces . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1965 ( online ).
  7. ↑ a b Herbert von Borch: "The unfinished society" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1961 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Unfulfilled hope . In: Die Zeit , No. 44/1986
  9. ↑ He brought us closer to America On the death of Herbert von Borch . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 29, 2003
  10. ^ Hannsferdinand Döbler: Augiasstall in Amerika . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1965.
  11. ↑ Waldemar Besson: Real peace is dynamic . In: Die Zeit , No. 45/1966.
personal data
SURNAME Borch, Herbert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Swatau
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2003
Place of death Munich