Ernst Borsig

Ernst August Paul Borsig (September 13, 1869 in Berlin-Moabit – January 6, 1933 in Gut Groß Behnitz, Brandenburg) was a German industrialist.[1][2][3]

Ernst August Paul Borsig

Biography
The coat of arms of the von Borsig family (1909)

Borsig graduated from high school in Berlin in 1889, and then completed technical training at the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association He then studied at the University of Bonn and the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. In 1890 he became a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn.[4]

Ernst Borsig played a major role in the relocation of the Moabit workshops to Berlin-Tegel. He visited a number of well-known local and foreign factories, and sent some of his technical officials on extensive study trips to England and America. This resulted in the drafts for the new plant, which after its completion in 1898, became a landmark in Berlin.

In 1898, Borsig married Margarete Gründler. They had four children together: Karl Albert Arnold (1899), Margret (1900), Annelise (1902) and Ernst von Borsig junior (1906).

Literature
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 17 f. ( Online, PDF; 3.9 MB).
  • Friedrich Schildberger: Borsig, Johann Friedrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 476.

References
  1. Ernst v. Borsig: An entrepreneur's considerations on social policy . StA Hamburg, Blohm / Voss 1932. Quoted from: Karl Christian Führer: Unemployment and the emergence of unemployment insurance in Germany 1902–1927. Berlin 1990, p. 206.
  2. Henry Ashby Turner : The big entrepreneurs and the rise of Hitler , Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 70 f.
  3. Borsig, Ernst von
  4. Ernst v. Borsig: An entrepreneur's considerations on social policy . StA Hamburg, Blohm / Voss 1932. Quoted from: Karl Christian Führer: Unemployment and the emergence of unemployment insurance in Germany 1902–1927. Berlin 1990, p. 206.


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