Conrad von Borsig (April 23, 1873, in
Berlin – February 13, 1945, in
Prillwitz
Prillwitz is a small village in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania), on the shores of the lake Lieps, Germany. It is part of the municipality Hohenzieritz. It lies approximately 125 kilometres north of Berlin through the B96 or 205 ...
) was a co-owner of the German mechanical engineering .
[Friedrich Schildberger: Borsig, Johann Friedrich August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, , p. 476]
Biography
Conrad von Borsig was the son of
Albert Borsig and the grandson of
August Borsig
Johann Karl Friedrich August Borsig (23 June 1804 – 6 July 1854) was a German businessman who founded the ''Borsig-Werke'' factory.
Borsig was born in Breslau (Wrocław), the son of cuirassier and carpenter foreman Johann George Borsig. After ...
. His brothers were
Ernst and Arnold. Borsig attended the Luisengymnasium in Berlin-Moabit. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship that included both banking and export business. In 1894 he became
co-owner and commercial manager of the Borsig company. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Reichsbank.
Literature
* Munzinger: International Biographical Archive. 01/1948 of December 22, 1947.
* Hubertus Neuschäffer: Castles and mansions in Western Pomerania. Commission publisher Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1994, , p. 184.
* 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, , p. 16 f. ( Online, PDF; 3.9 MB).
References
German businesspeople
1873 births
1945 deaths
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