Ferdinand Heinke

Ferdinand Heinke in 1813

Ferdinand Wilhelm Heinke (born November 8, 1782 in Breslau ; † March 14, 1857 there ) was a lawyer and Prussian civil servant.

Life

Ferdinand Heinke was born the son of a master furrier and fur trader. After graduating from high school in 1802 at the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau, he studied law in Halle (Saale) . In Breslau he followed the call to " To My People " by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and took part as Prime Lieutenant of the 8th Silesian Landwehr Cavalry Regiment in the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon in the Silesian Army under Generals Gneisenau and Friedrich von Kleist Graf von Nollendorf .

In the years 1813 and 1814 he stayed in Weimar as adjutant to Major Friedrich Anton Ulrich Carl Leopold von Kleist . Kleist was deployed as the city ​​commandant of Weimar and Ferdinand Heinke had extensive powers as his deputy. He knew Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's wife from his student days in Halle (Saale). He quickly made the acquaintance of Goethe personally and was often a welcome guest at his house, as well as in the house of the Schopenhauer and at the court of the Weimar Duke (from 1815 Grand Duke ) Karl August . With Ottilie von Pogwisch , who later became August von Goethe's wife , and her friend Adele Schopenhauer , he spent many cultural highlights in Weimar.

There is evidence of this in Weimar ( Ottilie von Goethe's correspondence ). An existing diary by Ferdinand Heinke is considered a valuable contemporary document. It was used by Thomas Mann in “ Lotte in Weimar ” and by Ruth Rahmeyer in “Ottilie von Goethe, an extraordinary woman”, but by Thomas Mann in “poetic freedom” .

When he returned to Breslau, he made a career as co-director of the Breslauer Aktientheater, where he led Maria Stuart dramaturgically in May 1819 , police president from 1824, honorary citizen from 1831, curator of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from 1832 and secret agent of the same from 1835.

On August 23, 1841, the same day Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the Deutschlandlied on Heligoland , Heinke reported it to the Minister of Education, Johann Albrecht Friedrich von Eichhorn . In doing so, he complied with the instruction to report professors who were critical of the state's situation. The reason was the “non-political songs” of Faller's life. On November 3, 1841, Heinke conducted the first interrogation in Faller's life. This was the beginning of proceedings against Fallersleben. On January 28, 1842, Heinke submitted an expert report in the Fallersleben case to the Prussian State Ministry. At the end of the proceedings, Fallersleben was dismissed as a full professor. In March 1850, Ferdinand Heinke reported Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck to the Prussian Minister of Education, Adalbert von Ladenberg . He had reported that Esenbeck had taken part in the workers' brotherhood. The minister ordered a house search and forced Esenbeck to leave. In September 1850, Friedrich Wilhelm IV requested further investigations against Esenbeck.

family

In 1815 Ferdinand Heinke married Charlotte "Lottina" Werner (* around March 10, 1776 , † January 29, 1868 in Berlin; buried in Breslau). The connection resulted in seven children.

• Son Friedrich Reinhold (born around June 1818 in Breslau, † January 11, 1892 in Berlin), single
• Son Hermann († April 11, 1854 ), doctor
• Son Maximilian (* around March 1822 in Breslau, † December 31, 1889 in Hirschberg ) was the royal judge .
• Daughter Ottilie Fanny Friederike (* around August 1823 in Breslau ; † November 2, 1888 in Berlin ), single, was a composer and piano teacher who also worked for children.
• Daughter Klara Friederike (* around June 24, 1824 in Breslau, † January 9, 1892 in Berlin ), single, became known as a painter and founding member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . She was friends with the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen and also worked for him artistically.
• Daughter Cordelia Friederike (* around 1825 / 1826 , † 12. January 1866 in Berlin), single
• Daughter Hedwig Friederike (* around 1828 / 1829 in Breslau, † 6. December 1909 in Berlin), single

Awards and memberships

• 1814: Carrier of the EK II class
• 1831: Honorary citizen of Wroclaw
• 1854: Member of the Leopoldina
• Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves
• Imperial Russian Order of Stanislaus II. Class
• Dr. jur. hc; Dr. phil. hc

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Hecker : Ferdinand Heinke in Weimar . In: Goethe Yearbook . 47, 1927, pp. 251-306.
2. ^ Herbert Zeman (ed.): Yearbook of the Vienna Goethe Society; Volume 94; Wiener Goethe-Verein , Verlag Fassbaender , Vienna , 1990, p. 158
3. ↑ Description of the diary in the Goethemuseum Kippenberg ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 280.
5. ↑ Deutschlandlied on fallersleben.de
6. ↑ Meeting of the State Ministry on March 8, 1842 in: acta borussica vol. 3 (PDF; 3.1 MB)
7. ^ Faller's life data
8. ^ Günther Höpfner: Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) - a German scholar on the side of the workers. In: Contributions to post-March research . Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck, Carl Georg Allhusen . Documentation on Wilhelm Wolff's library . Trier 1994. ( Writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus No. 47.) ISBN 3-86077-206-6 , p. 80 ff.
9. ^ Church book of the parish Sankt Lucas Berlin 1868, p. 97 No. 14
10. ↑ Death register of the Berlin registry offices 1874–1920, registry office Berlin IV a, first registry 1892 No. 38
11. ↑ Max Hecker : Ferdinand Heinke in Weimar . In: Goethe Yearbook . 47, 1927, p. 306.
12. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, Germany; Civil status register 1876–1945; serial number: 25580; Civil register of Hirschberg, district of Hirschberg 1890, death register no.2
13. ↑ Death register of the Berlin registry offices 1874–1920. Landesarchiv, Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Schöneberg I; Returned first register 1888 No. 368
14. ↑ Death register of the Berlin registry offices 1874–1920. Landesarchiv, Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Schöneberg I; Returned first register 1892 No. 13
15. ↑ Death register of the Evangelical Trinity Church (Berlin) , 1866 p. 3 No. 15 #
16. ↑ Church book of the parish of Sankt Lucas Berlin 1866, p. 29 No. 13
17. ↑ Max Hecker : Ferdinand Heinke in Weimar . In: Goethe Yearbook . 47, 1927, p. 306.
18. ↑ Death register of the Berlin registry offices 1874–1920. Landesarchiv, Berlin, Germany; Berlin III Second register declared the first register 1909; No. 1166
19. ↑ Max Hecker : Ferdinand Heinke in Weimar . In: Goethe Yearbook . 47, 1927, pp. 251-306.