Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Lyncker

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Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Lyncker (born January 18, 1767 in Flurstedt , † January 30, 1843 in Weimar ) was district administrator in Jena.

Life

Lyncker was born on January 18, 1767 as the son of Carl Friedrich Ernst von Lyncker (1726-1801). After the death of his grandfather, Wilhelm Ernst Christian von Lyncker (1685–1750) , the Flurstedt estate not far from Apolda and Kötschau (Großschwabhausen) between Weimar and Jena fell to him through co-loan from Denstedt . Lyncker was the seventh child. The birth of this branch of the Lynckers secured the dynastic survival and was therefore of extraordinary importance for this noble family.

Lyncker got to know Goethe at the age of eight, with whom he later became close friends, as did the Weimarer Hof, where he had been court page from 1780 to 1784.

In 1783 he began to study law in Jena, but began a military career after graduating. In 1787 he entered the Prussian service, before changing to Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt services in 1792, where he achieved the rank of captain, and in 1797 that of a major. In 1807 he ended his military career. He became a privy councilor connected with a pension and free apartment in the Rudolstadt city palace in Ludwigsburg. In addition, he received from Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1757-1828) the appointment of district administrator of the Jena district with an annual salary of 300 thalers, which was not small. In 1815 Carl August appointed him colonel and in 1816 knight of the White Hawk Order . From 1817 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach for the estate of the estate owners in the Weimar district.

Lyncker lived temporarily in Rudolstadt , in Weimar , and moved to Jena in 1818, where he often met Goethe and Karl Ludwig von Knebel in his house. Ten years later, Lyncker moved to the Kötschau family estate, which he sold in 1838 and moved to his small mansion "Linkers Hof" at the foot of the small Ettersberg, belonging to Denstedt . He died on January 30, 1843 in Weimar and was buried in Rudolstadt.

Literary estate

Lyncker's notes are an important source of the history of the Weimar court in Goethe's time. As he himself states in the foreword, he not only wrote down his own memories, but also things of which he became aware through hearsay, especially with regard to assessments of people. This was done on the orders of Carl Friedrich (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) . How he had perceived his military service in the Prussian service, he left in 1841 in the form of a rhymed representation of the city of Neisse , its garrison and its fortress service from 1786 to 1789. Marie Scheller as his great-niece published his memoirs for the first time in 1912. In 1997 Jürgen Lauchner arranged for a complete publication of Lynckers' estate, which he accompanied with an afterword, which can already be considered a small monograph.

literature

  • Karl Frhr. von Lyncker: At the Weimar court under Amalien and Karl August, ed. by Marie Scheller, Berlin 1912.
  • Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Lyncker: I served at the Weimar court: Notes from the time of Goethe, ed. by Jürgen Lauchner, Böhlau Verlag Cologne-Weimar Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-412-05297-3 .
  • Effi Biedrzynski : Goethe's Weimar: The lexicon of people and scenes, Artemis & Winkler Verlag, Mannheim 2010, p. 276 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Lyncker: I served at the Weimar court: Notes from the time of Goethe, ed. by Jürgen Lauchner, Böhlau Verlag Köln-Weimar Vienna 1997, p. 245. ISBN 3-412-05297-3 .
  2. ↑ Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Lyncker: I served at the Weimar court: Notes from the time of Goethe, ed. by Jürgen Lauchner, Böhlau Verlag Köln-Weimar Vienna 1997, pp. 114–133. ISBN 3-412-05297-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lyncker, Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION District Administrator in Jena
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Flurstedt
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1843
Place of death Weimar