Borsig, August

Augustus Borzig was born in the family of the cuirassier and the carpenter Johann Georg Borzig . He studied the craft of his father, and also studied at the Royal Provincial School of Architecture and the Arts, and then until the autumn of 1825 at the Royal Craft Institute in Berlin.

Borzig acquired practical knowledge of machine building in iron foundry from Franz Anton Egels . One of the first works commissioned by Borzig was the installation of a steam engine in Silesian Waldenburg . Successfully completing the order, Borzig got a job as a production manager who had been occupying for 8 years. In 1828, Augustus Borzig married Louise Pahl ( him. Louise Pahl ), and a year later his only son Albert was born.

In 1836, Borzig invested his savings in the purchase of a land plot on Shosseynaya Street ( Chausseestraße ) from the Oranienburg Gate in Berlin and founded his own engineering company ^[1] . The founding date is celebrated on July 22, 1837 , when the first batch of cast iron was cast.

In the initial period, Borzig produced steam engines for his own consumption and machine tools for other enterprises, and also worked on iron and art castings, but soon his interest turned to locomotive building . By 1843, Prussian railways ordered 18 steam locomotives from Borzig, and in 1844 Borzig presented its Beuth locomotives at the Berlin Industrial Exhibition.

Borsig's company grew rapidly due to the development of railways in Germany. In 1847, construction began on a metallurgical plant in Moabit , which entered service in 1849 . In 1850, Borzig bought a machine-building enterprise and metallurgical production on the Kirchstrasse in Berlin. About 1,800 people worked at three enterprises in Berlin, which at that time was a large-scale production.

August Borsig was considered a strict but fair boss and an energetic person. For his employees, he established a hospital and savings banks. The factory had training facilities, a dining room and a shower room with a swimming pool. With the increase in the number of orders, the wealth of Borsig increased, and soon he turned from a poor knight of Breslau fortune into a wealthy, not alien luxury entrepreneur and at the same time patron of arts . Unfortunately, he did not manage to enjoy his wealth to the full. At the peak of his power, he died on July 6, 1854, and was buried at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery . The gravestone was made by the architect Heinrich Strack .

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• Rheinmetall-Borsig Aktiengesellschaft (Hrsg.): Deutscher Maschinenbau 1837–1937 im Spiegel des Werkes Borsig . Berlin, 1937
• Galm, Ulla: August Borsig . Stapp, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87776-167-4
• Kutschik, Dietrich: Lokomotiven von Borsig: Eine Darstellung der Lokomotivgeschichte der Firma A. Borsig und der Nachfolgefirmen . Transpress, Verlag für Verkehrswesen, Berlin 1985
• Kutschik, Dietrich; Wenzel, Hansjürgen; Koch, Matthias: Borsig. Lokomotiven für die Welt . EK Verlag, Freiburg 1986, ISBN 3-882-55111-9
• Pierson, Kurt: Borsig, ein Name geht um die Welt: die Geschichte des Hauses Borsig und seiner Lokomotiven . Rembrandt Verlag Berlin, 1973, ISBN 3-7925-0204-6

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