Carl Finck von Finckenstein (politician, 1794)

Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Bonaventura Count Finck von Finckenstein (born May 13, 1794 in Jäskendorf ; † January 19, 1865 ibid) was a German landowner and politician.

family

Finck von Finckenstein was the son of the landscape director in the Prussian Oberland Georg Konrad Graf Finck von Finckenstein and his wife Henriette Catharina Freiin von Korff. On April 3, 1819, he married Wilhelmine von Tippelskirch adH Wilknit (* May 19, 1797 in Wilknitten; † April 9, 1859 in Jäskendorf), the daughter of the Prussian captain and hospital director Friedrich von Tippelskirch on Pellen and Wilknitten. Their sons Konrad Karl Finck von Finckenstein and Carl Finck von Finckenstein emerged from the marriage. Konrad Finck von Finckenstein is a grandson, Hans Finck von Finckenstein is a nephew.

Life

Finck von Finckenstein joined the 2nd West Prussian Dragoon Regiment in 1813 and was promoted to ensign and lieutenant in the same year. In 1815 he was transferred to the 8th Dragoon Regiment and in 1815 to the 4th Dragoon Regiment, and in 1815 he said goodbye.

In 1813 he inherited the goods of the Gilgenburger-Jankendorfer line with the debts on them. After many years of conflict, he lost this legacy in 1831. In 1826 he was heir to the Schöneberg line. Here too there were inheritance disputes, this time in 1829 with his brother Conrad. After that he was the master of Jäskendorf. After the death of his childless brother Conrad in 1851, he also became heir to Finckenstein-Schönberg.

In 1833 he became General Landschaftsrat and in 1846 Obermarschall of the Kingdom of Prussia, later Landhofmeister in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Prussia and there deputy state marshal. In 1847 he was a member of the First United State Parliament . In 1850 he belonged to the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament . From October 12, 1854 to January 19, 1865 he was a member of the Prussian mansion - as the holder of one of the four major state offices in the Kingdom of Prussia .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 135-136.