Hermann Borgmann

Hermann Borgmann (born November 14, 1855 in Schkeuditz , † April 16, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German businessman and SPD parliamentary group leader in the Prussian House of Representatives .

Borgmann was the son of a carpenter and attended an elementary school in Gohlis near Leipzig . After years of traveling and military service, he worked as a hat maker journeyman in Leipzig . He joined the union and the SPD. In 1888 he moved to Berlin and in 1891 became a partner and director of the cooperative "Deutsche Hutfabrik" Berlin. In the 1892 election, Borgmann was elected to the Berlin city council, to which he belonged until his death. From 1898 he ran a hat and cap wholesaler.

In the election to the Prussian House of Representatives in June 1908, seven Social Democrats were elected for the first time, these were Borgmann, Hugo Heimann , Paul Hirsch , Adolph Hoffmann , Robert Leinert , Karl Liebknecht and Heinrich Ströbel . Borgmann represented the constituency of Berlin 5 in parliament and immediately became chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. At the Magdeburg party congress of the SPD in September 1910, he gave the lecture on the "question of voting rights ". After a serious illness, he died in 1911, his successor in parliament was then Julian Borchardt , and Paul Hirsch became chairman of the parliamentary group.

Initially Protestant, he was later non-denominational .

literature

• Bernhard Mann : Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 .
• Franz Osterroth , Dieter Schuster : Chronicle of the German Social Democracy, Volume I: Until the end of the First World War. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. Bonn 1975, 2nd revised and expanded edition, ISBN 3-8012-1083-9 , pp. 131, 143, 145.

Web links

• SPD Helmholtzplatz - Hermann Borgmann
• Hermann Borgmann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Hermann Borgmann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 77 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)