Philip of Borries

Philip of Borries

Philipp Karl Ludwig von Borries (born April 26, 1778 in Harsefeld ; † June 17, 1838 in Herford ) was a German manor owner, government official and member of parliament, and from 1817 to 1832 district administrator of the Prussian district of Bünde and from 1832 to 1838 district administrator of the Herford district in Westphalia .

Life

His parents were Otto von Borries (1728–1785) and his second wife Eleonore, nee Countess Grote (1749–1820). The family originally comes from Minden , was part of the imperial nobility and the Westphalian-Lower Saxon noble family Borries . Philipp von Borries was entrant commissioner on Gut Steinlacke . From 1792 to 1793 he attended the Knight Academy in Lüneburg . From 1793 to 1803 he was a soldier in the electoral Hanoverian Leib dragoon regiment and was most recently the regiment's prime lieutenant . In 1807 he was a royal Westphalian mayor and member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1813 to 1814 Philipp von Borries was Prussian Rittmeister and in 1814 a member of the government commission in Berlin . In 1817 Philipp von Borries was appointed district administrator for the Bünde district. After the Bünde district was dissolved, he was appointed district administrator of the Herford district in 1832, a position he held until his death in 1838.

His son Georg von Borries was his successor. The von Borries family held the office of District Administrator of Herford for more than a hundred years from 1832 to 1933 and produced numerous other high-ranking Prussian government officials.

Philipp von Borries was a Protestant and legal knight of the Order of St. John . He married on December 31, 1806 in Grabkow with Luise von Bülow (1777–1861), a daughter of Friedrich Ernst von Bülow . His second oldest son, Hans (1819–1901), became a Prussian colonel and prehistoric .

literature

• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Old nobility and post office nobility. 1922. Sixteenth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1921, pp. 90–93.
• New necrology of the Germans. P. 609, digitized
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 83.

Web links

• Short biography in the project Westphalian history
• Website about the Borries family by Horst von Borries
• Borries, Philipp Karl Ludwig von. Hessian biography. (As of April 26, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).