Carl Garcke

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Carl Garcke (* 1804 in Bleicherode near Nordhausen; † November 5, 1888 in Zeitz ) was a farmer and politician in the Prussian province of Saxony .

Life

He was born in 1804 in Bleicherode near Nordhausen. His father Friedrich Garcke was a tax collector there. Carl attended high school in Quedlinburg until the end of Secunda 1820 and then learned agriculture for a year and a half with the tenant of the Prussian domain Schlanstedt , Oberamtmann Rabe. He stayed in Schlanstedt for another three years as an administrator.

In mid-1825 his father had acquired the Wittgendorf manor southeast of Zeitz from an auction, so that Carl Garcke, after completing his one-year military service, began to operate in Wittgendorf. In 1832 he married Sophie Graeser, the daughter of a landowner in Prößdorf near Lucka in Saxony. The wife died after three years, the two children died very young. In September 1836 he married Louise Kober, whose father Christian Heinrich Kober had leased the large manor Breitenfeld northwest of Leipzig. The marriage resulted in nine children, six girls and three boys. Garcke died on November 5, 1888 in Zeitz.

Politician

Garcke was elected in 1845 by the manor owners in the area of ​​the former Naumburg-Zeitz monastery as a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony . According to the ordinance of 17 May 1827, one of the eight members of the knighthood in the Thuringian district was to be elected in the Naumburg-Zeitz monastery. He was the only commoner in the knighthood's curia. However, the state parliament did not meet in the following years.

In April 1847, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV summoned the members of all state parliaments of the provinces to a united state parliament in Berlin. Contrary to what the king had imagined, the negotiations in the state parliament contributed to intensifying the political crisis in the country at the time. It was the result of the fermentation process that had gripped all of Germany during the thirties and forties: the persevering forces, embodied in Prussia by the king, the "romantic on the throne", shaped by historical-patriarchal, Christian-Germanic and class thinking , counteracted the driving forces for change: liberal ideas, demand for political participation, in the province of Saxony an “opposition in a gown” against a religious corporate state, the beginning of industrialization, revolution in transport by railways and steamers. Economic crises increased the drive for change. Although the United State Parliament had no decision-making powers, its negotiations were followed lively throughout Germany. For the first time, outside the actual powers of the assembly, representatives from areas from the Rhine to East Prussia raised questions of the political constitution in heated debates. The hesitation of the king and the proven political impotence of the assembly increased the bitterness in the country.

Carl was not affected by the forces of change. He belonged to the conservative camp. In all votes he voted like the majority of his peers in the knighthood. He rejected the motions to strengthen the rights of the United State Parliament, the Ostbahn loan, and the emancipation of the Jews.

On April 2, 1848, the Second United State Parliament met in Berlin, in which Garcke was also a member. Meanwhile in March revolutionary unrest had broken out in Berlin and in other Prussian cities. The United State Parliament agreed to convene a Prussian National Assembly. He was still a member of the provincial state parliaments of the Province of Saxony, which met again in Merseburg from 1851 .

farmer

Carl Garcke was recognized as an agricultural expert. He was a member of the assessment committee elected for the Zeitz district , which determined the agricultural land and economic conditions for tax purposes. He was a district councilor of the General Commission in Merseburg to regulate the landlord and peasant conditions, the subdivisions and replacements in the administrative districts of Merseburg and Erfurt. He was also district director of the Zeitz district of the Land-Feuer-Sozietät for the flat land of the Duchy of Saxony.

literature

  • Garcke, Klaus: History of the Garcke family . In: German Family Archives . tape 161 . Degener, Insingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7686-5210-0 , pp. 44-47, 289-293 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garcke, Klaus: History of the Garcke family . In: German Family Archives . tape 161 . Degener, Insingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7686-5210-0 , pp. 44-47, 289-293 .
  2. ^ Negotiations of the first provincial state parliament of the province of Saxony . Kobitzsch, Merseburg 1827, p. 41-47 .
  3. ↑ August Theodor Wöniger: Prussia's First Reichtag . tape 1-10 . Stuhr, Berlin 1847, p. 103 (Vol. 1), p. 659 (Vol. 10) .
  4. ↑ Wöniger, August Theodor: Prussia first Reichstag . tape 1-10 . Berlin 1848, p. 103 (Vol. 1), 659 ff. (Vol. 10) .
personal data
SURNAME Garcke, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Farmer and politician in the Prussian province of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Bleicherode near Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1888
Place of death Time