Named in honor of Freimut Börngen, senior staff astronomer at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Tautenburg. For 27 years Börngen has worked as an observer at the 1.3-m Schmidt telescope. He has been particularly interested in problems of photographic photometry and has published numerous papers on galaxies of a wide variety of types. Eighteen of his many minor planet discoveries have so far been numbered. (M 14207) _ _.