Wilhelm Börger

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Wilhelm Börger

Wilhelm Heinrich Börger (born February 14, 1896 in Kray ; † June 29, 1962 in Heidelberg ) was a German Nazi politician.

Life

After attending elementary school learned Boerger the locksmith and was subsequently used as a journeyman on the bill Dahlbusch in Rotthausen operates. From January 1915 to November 1918 took Boerger as a soldier of the Navy at the First World War in part. After the end of the war, Börger returned to the Dahlbusch colliery as an electrician. He was probably close to the KPD , which he later used to call his youthful sin. In the following years worked in various factories in Neuss and from 1925 to 1930 as a works secretary for the city of Neuss.

Its political development was influenced by Ernst Ellenberger and Ernst Graf zu Reventlow .

Since 1920 Börger has been politically active in public. In 1924 he ran for the "Völkische Freiheitsbewegung" for the Prussian state parliament . Since 1928 he belonged to the NSDAP (membership number 150.841), was head of the NSDAP local group Neuss from 1929 , from 1930 NS district leader and from 1932 regional chairman. In the SS Börger last had the rank of SS Brigade Leader . From September 1930 Börger belonged to the Reichstag for constituency 22 (Düsseldorf East). Even after the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” , he retained his mandate in the then functionless Reichstag .

Wilhelm Börger was used as a speaker by the NSDAP, so u. a. as a "Nazi worker agitator" and was very well received in this function. Not only students came to his later lectures. His speeches were extremely anti-Semitic , with Börger, who was a firm believer in the Bible and came from a religious evangelical family, who took his examples from the Old Testament . At the same time, Börger was anti-capitalist and was well received by KPD and SPD members.

After the "seizure of power" by the National Socialists, Börger received a teaching post for "German Socialism" at the University of Cologne in May 1933 . His work was funded by Erwin Geldmacher , the then dean of the economics faculty. His assistant Franz Horsten took over the actual work when it turned out that Börger was overwhelmed. At the same time Börger was appointed " Trustee of Labor " ( Rhineland ) and the Prussian State Council. In April 1934 he became a Reichsbeamter. On July 16, 1935, he received an honorary professorship and became head of the Institute for German Social Policy at the University of Cologne.

Börger published several books with National Socialist ideas, including in 1933 the text "Applied Race Studies for Everyone", which reached a circulation of several hundred thousand copies.

In 1938 he moved to the Reich Ministry of Labor as a ministerial director with responsibility for the administration of the ministry and the subordinate agencies . On January 30, 1939, he was appointed SS Brigade Leader. From November 1944 he worked for the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS.

Börger was a member of the central committee of the Reichsbank , the administrative committee of the Deutsche Reichspost and the "Advisory Board for Population and Racial Policy" of the Reich Ministry of the Interior . He also became a special trustee for mining.

After the end of the war

Börger was imprisoned and taken to the Hessisch Lichtenau camp, then transferred to Nuremberg, where Robert W. Kempner tried in vain to use him as a witness. While in custody, he developed a hatred of Hitler, especially when he learned that two of his daughters had been bombed. He was released at the end of 1948. In his denazification process, he was initially classified in category III ("less polluted"), later in category IV ("fellow travelers").

He later took up residence in Essen and became a sales representative for paints, varnishes and work gloves. He sued unsuccessfully for the revival of his civil service. He held talks with the Protestant pastor Hermann Blanke in Essen-Rüttenscheid and attended the church services of the community without rejoining the church.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla u. a. (Arr.): Extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical handbook , Düsseldorf 2004, p. 49 f.
  • Manfred Müller: Paving the way to freedom! About socialism and social policy: Nazi workers agitator W.Börger. Verlag Heitz and Höffkes, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-926650-83-4 .
  • Börger, Wilhelm In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the standardization of the health system" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , part 2, Academy for public health in Düsseldorf 1985 , ISSN 0172-2131, p. 385.

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