Kurt von Borries
Kurt von Borries (born January 4, 1885 in Magdeburg , † March 3, 1968 in Lübbecke ) was a German politician and government official. From 1918 to 1945 he was district administrator of the Lübbecke district in the province of Westphalia .
Life
Kurt von Borries was born in Magdeburg in 1885 as the son of the influential von Borries noble family , who produced numerous government officials. In 1903 he finished his education at the grammar school in Altenburg with the Abitur and then studied law and economics in Göttingen , Munich and Berlin . In 1903 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia in Göttingen . From 1906 he was employed at the higher regional court in Celle and from 1912 at the district government in Hanover . From 1906 to 1907 Kurt von Borries served as a volunteer in the Prussian Army , in 1909 he became a lieutenant in the reserve in the 1st Guards Regiment on foot. From 1912 to 1914 he worked in the Lübbecke district office, and from 1915 to 1918 at the high presidium in Potsdam. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . In March 1918 Kurt von Borries was entrusted with the administration of the district office of the Lübbecke district and was finally appointed district administrator on September 26, 1918. From October 31, 1924 to March 31, 1925 he was entrusted with the administration of the District Office in Moers and from November 7, 1938 to March 10, 1939 with the administration of the District Office in Recklinghausen . After the occupation of Lübbeckes, he was commissioned on April 5, 1945, with the consent of an English officer, to continue the business of the district administrator. On April 10, 1945 v. Borries automatically arrested by the American Military Police . Until May 28, 1945 he was interned in Lübbecke, Brackwede and in Internment Camp 91 of the 9th American Army.
On September 24, 1945 Kurt von Borries was finally dismissed from civil service by the district president and on April 1, 1949, he retired with effect from 1947.
Kurt von Borries was a Protestant and married to Helene Finck von Finckenstein . On December 19, 1939, he was assured of continued membership in the NSDAP by means of a “pardon from the Führer”; his wife Helene was "not of purely Aryan descent".
Kurt von Borries and his wife had four children.
Party memberships
Kurt von Borries was a member of the German Conservative Party until 1918, a member of the DNVP until 1928 and a member of the NSDAP from May 1933 . From 1937, as head of the legal office, he was a member of the district leadership of the NSDAP in Lübbecke and head of the local NS lawyers' association. In the Federal Republic of Germany Kurt von Borries was a member of the FDP and in 1952 the top candidate of the Liberals for the district council election in the Lübbecke district. He was a member of the district council until he retired for reasons of age in 1959.
Web links
- Short biography in the project Westphalian history
- Website of his grandson Horst von Borries about the members of the Borries family
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 85 , 543
Georg von dem Bussche | Adolf von der Horst | Ferdinand von Oheimb | Wilhelm von Ledebur | Kurt von Borries | Friedrich Georg Guardian | Otto Watermann | Heinrich Berg | Gustav Niermann | Heinrich Kosynowski | Heinrich Schumacher | Hermann Struckmeier
See also: District administrators in the Minden-Lübbecke district
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borries, Kurt von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German government official, district administrator of the Lübbecke district |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1968 |
| Place of death | Luebbecke |