Wilhelm Borgmann

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the forest scientist of the same name, see: Wilhelm Borgmann (forest scientist) (1869–1931).

Wilhelm Borgmann (born February 26, 1893 in Lorup , † October 3, 1947 in Aschendorf / Ems ) was a German farmer and politician ( DHP , center , later CDU ).

Life and work

Borgmann was born the son of a farmer. After completing primary school and the ensuing two-year private tuition, he completed an agricultural training course and attended the agricultural college in Meppen from 1908 to 1910 . He then worked as a farmer. In 1913 he did voluntary military service in the army of the state of Schaumburg-Lippe and took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 . After the end of the war he worked as managing director of agricultural cooperatives and later took over his parents' farm in Lorup.

Borgmann had to resign his offices in agricultural organizations for political reasons in 1933. After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested by the Gestapo as part of the Gewitter campaign and interned in the Ohrbeck labor education camp from August to September 1944 .

politics

Borgmann was the leader of the rural people in need movement in Emsland in 1927/28 . He joined the DHP in 1928, but switched to the Center Party in 1932 due to political differences. In November 1945 he was one of the founders of the CDU. Since February 1946 he was chairman of the CDU district association Aschendorf-Hümmling.

Borgmann was elected to the Prussian state parliament in 1928 via the state list of the Peasant and Rural People's Party , to which he belonged until 1932. Here he was a member of the German parliamentary group , which was composed of the DHP, the CNBL, the Völkisch-Nationalen Block and the Reich Party for People's Law and Appreciation . In addition, he was from 1929 to 1933 council member of the Lorup community and district council member of the Hümmling district and in 1933 for the center party a member of the Hanover provincial council .

Borgmann was again council member of the Lorup community since 1945. He was a member of the Appointed Hanover State Parliament between August 23, 1946 and October 29, 1946 , was then a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament between December 9, 1946 and March 28, 1947 and was elected to the Lower Saxony State Parliament in the first election period , of which he briefly belonged from April 20, 1947 until his death.

Borgmann was appointed mayor of the municipality of Lorup in 1945 by the Allied military administration and held this office until 1946. On January 31, 1946, the British occupation authorities appointed him district administrator of the Aschendorf-Hümmling district . At the turn of the year 1946/47, the agricultural functionary also played a leading role in founding the “Association of the Emsland Landvolks”, the new economic organization for agriculture in the Aschendorf-Hümmling, Meppen, Lingen and Grafschaft Bentheim districts .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 45.
• The CDU Osnabrück-Emsland from its foundation to spring 1962. For the district party conference on March 17, 1962 in Osnabrück. Edited by the CDU district association Osnabrück-Emsland, Osnabrück 1962, pp. 16, 17, 30.
• Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term (from 1928 onwards). Edited by the office of the Prussian Landtag, edited by E. Kienast, Berlin 1928, p. 504.
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 53–54.
• Helmut Lensing, Art. Borgmann, Wilhelm. In: Studiengesellschaft für Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (ed.), Emsländische Geschichte Vol. 6, Dohren 1997, pp. 155–158.
• Helmut Lensing: The rural people in need movement of 1928 in Emsland. In: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbund, vol. 40/1994, Sögel 1993, pp. 44–63.

Web links

• Biography at the study society for Emsland regional history