Joseph Borchmeyer

Joseph Borchmeyer

Joseph Borchmeyer (born November 13, 1898 in Herten ; †  January 14, 1989 in Recklinghausen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( German National People's Party (DNVP)).

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Borchmeyer attended elementary school and high school. After graduating from high school, he took part in the First World War, in which he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. From 1918 to 1921 he studied law and economics at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Westphalian Wilhelms University . He became a member of the expelled Strasbourg Corps Palatia (Marburg 1920) and Suevia (Münster 1923). In 1921 he passed the first state law examination in Hamm in Westphalia. The second followed in 1924 in Berlin . In 1922 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD .

In the following years he worked in industry and local government. From 1927 Borchmeyer lived as a lawyer and notary in Recklinghausen. Since 1919 Borchmeyer belonged to the German National People's Party (DNVP). During the French occupation of the Ruhr , Borchmeyer was arrested twice and sentenced by French courts-martial in Recklinghausen and Bochum. In 1925 he took over the chairmanship of the district association of his party in Recklinghausen. In the following years he took over a public office for the first time when he became a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament for the DNVP . In addition, he worked as an unpaid city councilor in Recklinghausen and as a political departmental advisor for the Stahlhelm .

In the Reichstag elections of November 1932 Borchmeyer was as DNVP candidate for the constituency 17 (Westphalia North) in the Reichstag elected. After his mandate was confirmed in the March 1933 election, Borchmeyer belonged to Parliament for exactly one year from November 1932 to November 1933. The most important parliamentary event in which Borchmeyer was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the passing of the Enabling Act of March 23, 1933 , which was also passed with his vote .

From 1946 to 1951, Borchmeyer took on legal representation in the denazification of the media entrepreneur and former Reich Minister of Economics, Alfred Hugenberg . As a lawyer, he defended him in various arbitration proceedings .

Borchmeyer's estate is now kept in two parts in the Federal Archives in Koblenz and in the City and Vestische Archives in Recklinghausen . The Recklinghausen estate is one box in size and contains, among other things, documents on the defenses of clergymen, victims of National Socialism and Alfred Hugenberg carried out by Borchmeyer. The Koblenz estate is 0.5 running meters in length and contains correspondence, further documents on the denazification proceedings against Hugenberg, a collection of newspaper clippings on political events in the final phase of the Weimar Republic and documentation on Hofacker's economic and socio-political ideas. According to Borchmeyer's own information from 1960, other papers were destroyed in a fire in 1959.

The literary scholar Dieter Borchmeyer is his son.

Fonts

• The protection of professional medical confidentiality under criminal law , 1923.
• Hugenberg and the Hitler dictatorship , 1949.
• Hugenberg's wrestling in fateful German hours. Facts and decisions in the proceedings in Detmold and Düsseldorf 1949/1950 , Detmold 1951.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph Borchmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joseph Borchmeyer in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 117 , 198; 161 , 201
2. ↑ Dissertation: The criminal law protection of professional medical confidentiality .