August Wolfgang von Kinckel

August Wolfgang von Kinckel (v. Kinkel), (born January 20, 1710 in Schorndorf , † 1768 in Vienna ) was legal counsel for the knight canton of Odenwald in Heilbronn . Coming from the Künckelin mayor family of Schorndorf , he was raised to the nobility in 1752 .

Life

He was the older son of the mayor of Schorndorf Georg Thomas Künckelin (1680–1720), attended the monastery school in Blaubeuren and then studied theology in Tübingen . Apparently he also studied law, because in 1734 he entered the service of the knightly canton of Odenwald , which had had its cantonal administration in Heilbronn since 1720 . After Heilbronn he was also followed by his younger brother Wolfgang Thomas Künckelin (1714–1789), who set up a trading house there. In 1736 he married Rosina Elisabetha Pancug, the sister of Heilbronn's mayor Georg Heinrich von Pancug , so that he was one of the most influential personalities in the city not only because of his professional position but also because of his family ties with the Heilbronn patriciate . Künckelin represented the knight canton Odenwald u. a. at imperial assemblies and at the imperial court camp. Before 1750 he was appointed a councilor. Between 1749 and 1751 he managed the Messbach manor for the Barons von Eyb .

On November 8, 1751, Emperor Franz I awarded the small Palatinate to August Wolfgang Künckelin, in the following year Künckelin was elevated to the hereditary nobility on September 30, 1752 and called himself Baron von Kinckel. As a coat of arms Kinckel carried a blue shield leaning to the right, in the middle of which a hexagonal gold star appears; on the left corner of the shield rests an open, aristocratic, blue tempered, red-lined, right-swept tournament helmet with wrapped gold jewels and blue and gold helmet covers on both sides, above which the gold star can be seen again.

In the year of the rise of the nobility, there was slanderous hostility against Kinckel, who asked the knight's canton to be released. However, the canton urged Kinckel to remain in office. After Kinckel was appointed Real Imperial Councilor in 1754 and in this capacity was also legal advisor to other dominions, the knightly canton approved his dismissal in 1756 and granted him an annual pension of 1,000 guilders.

family

He and his wife Rosina Elisabetha Pancug had ten children, all of whom were born in Heilbronn and six of whom reached adulthood:

• Rosina Elisabeth von Kinckel (1736–1808), married the Mayor of Esslingen Johann Andreas Harpprecht von Harpprechtstein (1706–1771) and her second marriage to the Mayor of Heilbronn Georg Heinrich von Roßkampff (1720–1794)
• Carl August Heinrich von Kinckel (1739–1790), Adjutant General in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
• Georg August Heinrich von Kinckel (1741–1827), royal Bavarian chamberlain and lieutenant general
• Friedrich August von Kinckel (1745–1788), Pfalz-Sulzbach government councilor and electoral mountain ridge in Mannheim
• Heinrich August von Kinckel (1747–1821), Dutch naval officer and diplomat
• Sophia von Kinckel (1756-1830), married the Württemberg State Councilor Johann August von Reuss (1751-1820)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Award of the imperial council title to Kinkel, August (decree for him). May 24, 1754. Retrieved June 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Popp / Riexinger 1983, p. 149.

literature

• Karl Hugo Popp and Hans Riexinger : On the history of the Heilbronn family Künckelin / von Kinckel . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, year book 30, 1983, pp. 145–166.