Ferdinand von Zschinsky

Ferdinand von Zschinsky (1797-1858)

Ferdinand von Zschinsky (born February 22, 1797 in Leubsdorf , † October 28, 1858 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and politician. He was interior minister , justice minister and chairman of the entire ministry in the Kingdom of Saxony .

Live and act

Zschinsky was born in Leubsdorf in 1797 as the son of the bricklayer Carl Christoph Rümmler and his wife Johanna Christiane Friederike. Seifert was born and initially received the name Ferdinand Rümmler. After he was adopted by the forester Ferdinand August Zschinsky, who held the position of chief forester in Borstendorf until 1818 , he took on his family name. After attending a private school, he entered the Freiberg Albertinum high school in 1812 and began studying law at the University of Leipzig in 1815 . After he had completed this in 1818, he worked for a law firm in Leipzig . In 1823 he received his doctorate on De cambiis multiplicatis quae Germanice dicuntur Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta Wechsel and then joined the patrimonial court as a lawyer . A little later he was appointed as assessor at the law faculty and in 1830 appointed court and judicial councilor. As such, he initially worked for the state government in Dresden, then at the state judicial college and, from 1835, at the Dresden Court of Appeal , of which he became vice-president in 1845.

In March 1848 he headed the Saxon Ministry of the Interior for two weeks . After the Saxon government under Gustav Friedrich Held resigned in April 1849, he was appointed Minister of Justice and chairman of the entire ministry on May 2, 1849 by the Saxon King Friedrich August II . During the Dresden May Uprising , he fled Dresden together with the King and Minister Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust . Several proclamations from these turbulent days have survived.

Under his leadership, the liberal suffrage of November 15, 1848 was suspended and that of the 1831 constitution restituted. A phase of reaction after the revolution of 1848/49 followed. An essential aspect of his reign was the reorganization of the judiciary in Saxony. The feudal jurisdiction of the landlords was abolished and the separation of powers between the state and the judiciary was introduced. In order to restore his health, he made a long trip to southern France and Italy in 1858, but succumbed to a lung disease shortly after his return to Dresden. His previous foreign minister, Beust, took over the position of chairman of the entire ministry.

family

Zschinsky married Maria Agnes Semmler from Nischwitz near Wurzen († September 28, 1835 in Dresden), daughter of Johann Friedrich Semmler and Christiane Amalie Selma Richter , in 1831 . Zschinsky entered into a second marriage with Bertha Bernhardt († January 2, 1870). The son Adolph von Zschinsky (born September 22, 1835 in Dresden; † March 12, 1894 Dresden), a notary in Dresden, emerged from the first marriage, and on February 5, 1865 in Paris, Baroness Leonilla von der Osten-Sacken (* June 16, 1849 in Boryslaw ; † August 21, 1921 in Kiev ), daughter of the Russian major general Baron Stanislaus von der Osten called Sacken († 1863) and Princess Praskowia Chikow, married.

Honors

Zschinsky was raised to hereditary nobility on May 3, 1856. The city of Dresden honored him on May 30, 1857 by making him an honorary citizen .

Fonts

• De cambiis multiplicatis quae Germanice dicuntur Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta Wechsel , Leipzig 1823
• with Friedrich August II., Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust: To the Saxon people - Proclamation when leaving Dresden, dd May 4, 1849. Protest against the provisional government dd May 5, 1849
• with Friedrich August II .: To the Saxon people - Proclamation ... Königstein Fortress, May 9, 1849

literature

• Hieronymus Gottlieb Kind: Solemnia inauguralia summorum in jure honorum viro Ferdinando Zschinsky - inest responsum ad quaestiones circa societate en commandite , Leipzig 1823
• Volker Neubert: Dr. Ferdinand Zschinsky (1797–1858), Saxon Minister of Justice from 1849–58. In: Sächsische Justizgeschichte Vol. 4 Saxon Justice Ministers 1831 to 1850, pp. 23–40 ( online edition ; PDF; 15.5 MB)
• Christian Eckardt: Ferdinand von Zschinsky - one of the first Prime Ministers of Saxony. In: Leubsdorfer Lokalanzeiger issue 2/2009
• Zschinsky . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition (1857-1865). Altenburg ( zeno.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GHdA , Volume 16, Freiherrliche Häuser B II, 1957, p. 531

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferdinand von Zschinsky in the Saxon Bibliography