Wilhelm Ritter von Borscht

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Wilhelm von Borscht around 1885
Wilhelm von Borscht around 1915
Wilhelm von Borscht as mayor.

Wilhelm Georg Borscht , since 1911 Knight von Borscht (born April 3, 1857 in Speyer ; † July 30, 1943 in Munich ) was a Bavarian center politician and long-time mayor of Munich, since 1907 mayor.

Life

He was born as the son of high school professor Joseph Borscht in Speyer in the Palatinate , studied law in Würzburg and passed the civil service examination in 1881. Then Borscht entered the Bavarian civil service and in 1882 became District Office Assessor in Kitzingen . In 1887 he was secretary of the National Arts and Crafts Exhibition.

From February 9, 1888 to 1893, Borscht held the post of Second Mayor of Munich, and on May 1, 1893, he was promoted to First Mayor of Munich. He remained in this office until June 15, 1919. Lothar Gall notes in his publication “City and Bourgeoisie in the 19th Century” : “In Munich, in 1893, the majority of the liberal municipal representatives elected the previous second mayor, the Catholic Wilhelm Borscht, who was close to the center his professional competence and his personal reputation as the First Mayor ”.

Borscht's tenure included the establishment of the Munich wholesale market hall and the introduction of electrical lighting in the capital. Together with Oskar von Miller , he tried to build the Deutsches Museum , and he also made a contribution to the establishment of the Hellabrunn Zoo .

To remedy the dire housing shortage and to improve hygiene standards, he was actively involved in founding housing cooperatives and was the first chairman of the supervisory board of the Association for the Improvement of Housing in Munich (today: Gemeinnütziger Wohnungsverein München 1899 eV ). He also had more apartments, hospitals and schools built; Gas works and trams came under municipal control.

When Franziskus von Bettinger from the Palatinate became Archbishop of Munich and Freising in 1909, the joke made the rounds that the highest authorities in the city now all came from the Palatinate: Lord Mayor Dr. Wilhelm von Borscht from Speyer, the Archbishop from Landstuhl and the Prince Regent from Zweibrücken , as descendants of the Wittelsbach family branch Pfalz-Zweibrücken .

As a result of being awarded the Grand Commander of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1911 by Prince Regent Luitpold, Borscht was raised to the personal nobility as a knight of Borscht . In 1913, Borscht had also received the Order of Merit from St. Michael I Class and the Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Munich .

During the First World War, Borscht ensured that the families affected by the war were supported by welfare committees. When he retired in 1919, he was given honorary citizenship , and after his death he was given an honorary grave by the city of Munich in the forest cemetery there .

Borscht was married to Eugenie Prager of Jewish origin, the sister of the Munich entrepreneur and art patron Ludwig Prager (1866–1936)

Franz Borscht, the mayor's brother, a friend of the Speyer Indian missionary Jakob Rebmann and the theologian Otto Pfülf , worked as a Jesuit priest in Liverpool .

Awards

See also

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. Hennig Publishing House. Edenkoben 2004. ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 95 (curriculum vitae with photo).

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm von Borscht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Gall, "City and Bourgeoisie in the 19th Century" , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 1990, p. 44.
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914. P. 19.
  3. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914. P. 33.
  4. ^ Website on the Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Munich, with mention of Mayor Ritter von Borscht
  5. ^ Website about the honorary citizens of Munich, with mention of Mayor Ritter von Borscht.
  6. ↑ Website of the grave of Mayor Ritter von Borscht (position 10)
  7. ↑ Bernhard Schossig, "Moved into the light: Jewish life in the west of Munich" , Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2008, p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Borscht, Wilhelm Ritter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borscht, Wilhelm Georg Ritter von (full name); Borscht, Wilhelm Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and mayor of Munich
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1943
Place of death Munich