Samuel Gottfried Borsche

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Samuel Gottfried Borsche (born November 19, 1767 in Tangermünde , † March 19, 1821 in Berlin ) was a Prussian and Westphalian civil servant and a state councilor.

Life

Samuel Gottfried Borsche was the second youngest of eight children of the businessman, brewer and boatman Johann Joachim Borsch and his wife Katharina Luise Kütze. Both parents came from respected brewery families in Stendal and Mitteldorf in the Ernestine Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg . The father owned an English brewery in Tangermünde, where Borsche went to school until he was 14 years old.

In the spring of 1783 Borsche switched to the monastery school Our Dear Women in Magdeburg . There he showed a special interest and talent for the ancient Greek language. On April 28, 1785 he went to the Friedrichs University in Halle to study Protestant theology , philosophy and philology . He broke off this course three years later and, after long stays in Züllichau and Berlin , took a legal course in the early 1790s with the later Prussian court judge Johann Friedrich Köhler. He went to Erlangen on April 23, 1793 and studied law and camera studies . With the Erlangen Westphalia he made numerous contacts and friendships with later Prussian state reformers and high administrative officials. These included Ludwig Freiherr von Vincke , Friedrich von Motz and Friedrich von Bassewitz . Borsche had a close friendship and a lively correspondence with Ludwig von Vincke until his death. He played a major role in Borsche's decision to join the Prussian civil and financial administration after graduation.

On January 13, 1798, Borsche became an assessor at the Kurmärkischen War and Domain Chamber . In the same year he gave up the post and accepted the offer of an assessor position at the newly founded War and Domain Chamber in Plock in New East Prussia . The Chamber was headed by the Secret State Council and Minister for East Prussia, Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter . During this time Borsche constantly complained about the lack of culture in the area and the monotony of the service. On the advice of the Prussian Minister Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten in 1801/1802 in Berlin, as a newly appointed war and domain council, he took on a department for the management of the Altmark and worked from there for the chamber in New East Prussia. In June 1802 Borsche was appointed to the main organization commission that Prussia had set up in the run-up to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss for the compensation areas awarded by the Reich, which it was to receive for its losses on the left bank of the Rhine. The Prussian state had illegally occupied the areas prior to the decision. Together with Friedrich von Bassewitz and the chamber judge Schultz, he was responsible for building up the new war and domain chamber Erfurt-Eichsfeld in Heiligenstadt and Erfurt. At the end of 1803 Borsche became director of the chamber. The business was mainly up to him, as the responsible President Christian Wilhelm Dohm was often on the road. Borsche headed the chamber until the region was occupied by French invasion troops after the Peace of Tilsit , in which, on July 7th to 9th, Napoleon Bonaparte and Tsar Alexander I downgraded the Prussian great power status and the territorial decimation of Prussia to less than half of his National territory. Borsche was imprisoned by the intendant of the French interim government in the spring of 1807 for alleged oppositional sentiments. After his wife and friend Friedrich von Motz had obtained his release, the Chamber President Christian Konrad Wilhelm Dohm proposed him for the leadership of the prefecture in the department of the Harz of the newly founded Kingdom of Westphalia . Almost the entire staff of the Erfurt-Eichsfeld War and Domain Chamber remained in office with Borsche.

On May 7, 1809, Borsche left the post as prefect and moved from Heiligenstadt to Berlin on May 26 , where Ludwig von Vincke, through intercession, got him a job offer with the Prussian government . On June 24th, 1809 he became Vice President of the Pomeranian Government in Stargrad and on March 7th, 1810 he became State Councilor for the general police in Berlin. In Berlin he took part in the Prussian reform legislation in civil administration and was appointed director of the domain and forest administration in the Prussian Ministry of Finance by State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg on October 31, 1810. He held this office until his death. On March 30, 1820, the Prussian government appointed him as a member of the new State Council in the trade affairs section for finance and home affairs.

At the age of 36, Borsche married Amalie, the second daughter of the Berlin Chamber Director of the Order of St. John Friedrich Heinrich Stubenrauch. From the marriage there were 7 children until Amalie's death. Shortly after buying a house at Oranienburger Strasse 37 in Berlin, Amalie Stubenrauch died on November 19, 1817 and Borsche married her sister Wilhelmine on July 12, 1818 and bought two properties in Pomerania at the end of 1820. On March 19, 1821, after a brief illness, he died of a stroke in Berlin.

Before his appointment as director of the Erfurt-Eichsfeld War and Domain Chamber, Borsche planned to emigrate to America more often and owned shares in an American copper mine until 1800.

Honors

In 1823, Borsche's second wife had a marble bust made by the sculptor Friedrich Tieck at her own expense and placed in the Prussian Ministry of Finance in memory of her husband.

literature

  • Reinhard Lüdicke: Samuel Gottfried Borsche. Life picture of a Prussian official. In: Saxony and Anhalt. Yearbook of the State Historical Research Center for the Province of Saxony and Anhalt. Volume 12 (1936), pp. 214-252.
  • Hans Bellée:  Borsche, Samuel Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 475 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Kohl : French-Westphalian influences on the Prussian reform legislation via Samuel Gottfried Borsche, a friend of Ludwig Baron Vincke . In: Paul Leidingerm, Dieter Metzler (ed.): History and historical consciousness. Festschrift for Karl-Ernst Jeismann . Münster 1990, pp. 380-392.
  • Wolf D. Hartmann, Elke Strauchenbruch: Who was what for Tangermünde. Interesting facts in short biographies about a prevented capital. Wittenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-942005-03-6 , p. 36.

Remarks

  1. ^ Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The Erlanger Westphalia 1794-1809 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 74–94, here: p. 82.
  2. ^ Lüdicke: Samuel Gottfried Borsche , in: Sachsen und Anhalt (1936), p. 216ff. and 229.
  3. ↑ See Kohl, Influences, in: Geschichte und Geschichtsbewusstsein, 1990, p. 385ff.
  4. ↑ Samuel Gottfried Lüdicke: Borsche, in: Sachsen und Anhalt (1936), p. 248. Picture in the National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Borsche, Samuel Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Tangermünde
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1821
Place of death Berlin