Alexander Küntzel

Alexander Küntzel (born November 11, 1804 in Wloclawek ; † May 23, 1873 in Wolka near Löbau in West Prussia ) was a Prussian lawyer and landowner . He was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from October 1848 to May 1849 .

Life

Alexander Rudolph Küntzel was born the son of a Prussian judiciary and border commissioner. From Easter 1822 to Easter 1824 he attended the Friedrichskollegium in Königsberg , which he left with the Abitur certificate . From 1824 studied Küntzel at the Albertina in Königsberg law .

He entered the Prussian civil service and worked as a trainee lawyer in Königsberg until 1830 . From 1830 Küntzel managed the Wolka estate in West Prussia as an administrator and farmer . From 1847 to 1862 he was the owner of the estate. In an article in the Königsberger Hartungschen Zeitung of July 25, 1842, he criticized grievances in the West Prussian administration of the Löbau district . At the instigation of the responsible district administrator of Hindenburg, there was then a court case against Küntzel that ended with a conviction for insulting officials against him. Two years later, Küntzel published the trial files, with his friend, the well-known Königsberg doctor and publicist Johann Jacoby, helping him. The proceedings against him and the files published from them made him appear as a victim of arbitrariness by the officials. In 1846, Alexander von Lavergne-Peguilhen , the district administrator of the Neidenburg district , published a pamphlet entitled Der Liberalismus und die Freiheit. Küntzel responded with a publication What do the liberals in Prussia want and what does Herr von Lavergne-Peguilhen want?

Just two years later, Küntzel and Lavergne-Peguilhen applied as candidates for election to the Frankfurt National Assembly. On May 10, 1848, Alexander von Lavergne-Peguilhen was elected as a member of parliament by the electors in constituency 11, which consisted of the West Prussian districts of Neidenburg and Osterode . Alexander Küntzel was appointed as his deputy. Since the MP Alexander von Lavergne-Peguilhen had already resigned his mandate at the end of September 1848 , the President instructed the Frankfurt National Assembly to convene his deputy or to order new elections. Küntzel succeeded him and became a member of the National Assembly on October 10th. He joined the casino parliamentary group , which also included numerous other West and East Prussian MPs. He did not appear as a speaker in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt , but often supported proposals that were submitted. On March 28, 1849, when he was elected German Emperor, he gave his vote to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. He initially disregarded the order issued by the Prussian government in May 1849, according to which all Prussian deputies were to resign. At the call by name in the Paulskirche on May 21, 1849 he was listed as present. However, Küntzel rejected a motion that was supposed to ensure the quorum of parliament with only 100 members present by staying away. It was not until May 24, 1849 that he decided to leave parliament. Küntzel was the only West Prussian to sign a declaration with 20 other MPs.

From 1862 to 1867 he was landowner in Mülheim on the Mosel and from 1867 to 1871 landowner in Biebrich on the Rhine . It was not until 1871 that he returned to West Prussia as the owner of his home estate Wolka, where he died on May 23, 1873, at the age of 68.

Fonts

• Record-based representation of the fiscal investigation carried out against the knight landowner Alexander Küntzel. (In addition to a submission to the Justice Minister Mühler). Voigt, Königsberg 1844 (87 pages)
• What do the liberals in Prussia want and what does Herr v. Lavergne-Peguilhen? Mayer, Leipzig 1847 (31 pages)

literature

• Bernhard-Maria Rosenberg: The East Prussian MPs in Frankfurt 1848/49. Biographical contributions to the history of political life in East Prussia. Grote, Berlin / Cologne 1970. Pages 71–77.

Web links

• Entry about Alexander Küntzel in the parliamentarian portal (BIOPARL)