Franz Arnold Linck

Franz Arnold Linck , from 1809 Knight von Linck , often also Link , (also Arnold von Link ; born January 4, 1769 in Mannheim , Electoral Palatinate , † January 18, 1838 in Augsburg ), was the son of the well-known Palatine court sculptor Franz Conrad Linck ( 1730–1793) and a senior Bavarian administrative officer in various positions; u. a. as President of the Government of rain circle (now Upper Palatinate ) and the upper Danube circle (today Bavarian Swabia ).

Life

Franz Arnold Linck was one of the three sons of the Palatine court sculptor Franz Conrad Linck, who came from Speyer , and his wife Eva Katharina nee. Weber (1747–1812) from Hockenheim .

First he attended school in Mannheim and then went to study at the royal college in Strasbourg . Here the future Bishop of Mainz Joseph Ludwig Colmar was his prefect and teacher, to whom he remained connected throughout his life. He completed his law and camera studies at the University of Heidelberg .

In 1792, Elector Karl Theodor appointed him to the state service of the Electorate of the Palatinate as court chamber councilor, and soon afterwards Linck was employed in the Palatinate court forest chamber, in 1798 he was promoted to a member of the highest provincial college and became a senior regional councilor, where he was responsible for the regional culture and police departments. In 1799 he traveled to Munich with the Electoral Palatinate deputation, which had to deliver the part of the country's homage to the new Elector Max IV. Joseph . While the Electoral Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine fell to France through the Peace of Campo Formio in 1797 , the Bavarian Elector also lost the remaining Electoral Palatinate areas to the right of the Rhine around Mannheim and Heidelberg, where Franz Arnold Linck was a member of the government until the end.

After a brief episode in the subsequent Baden civil service there, the Bavarian ruler appointed him in 1804 as a state directorate to Würzburg , where the territory of the previous duchy of Bavaria had just been incorporated. In 1805 Linck was transferred to Bamberg in the same capacity , in 1806 he came to Munich at the request of State Minister Wilhelm von Hompesch (1761–1809) and was entrusted with the organization of Bavarian forestry. Then he moved to the Ministry of Finance and took over the forestry department. On December 10, 1809, the current King Maximilian I Joseph appointed him Knight of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and thus elevated him to the personal nobility . From then on he was called Franz Arnold von Linck or Franz Arnold Ritter von Linck .

In 1817 Franz Arnold von Linck took over the position of Vice President of the Rhine District, which had fallen back to Bavaria a year earlier, and in 1820 he was appointed to the same position in the Upper Danube District in Augsburg. On January 8, 1824, Linck's personal nobility was converted into Erbadel.

From January 28, 1829, Franz Arnold von Linck worked as general commissioner and regional president of the Regenkreis zu Regensburg, today's Upper Palatinate. Here he founded the " Historical Association for the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg " in 1830

From there he moved back to the Upper Danube District, today's Bavarian Swabia, in 1831, where he also served as district president from 1832 until his sudden death in 1838. Franz Arnold von Linck gave the ceremonial address in 1834 at the inauguration of the "Wittelsbach National Monument" at Wittelsbach Castle . When he died, he was also the first chairman of the "Historical Association of Swabia and Neuburg" .

Franz Arnold von Linck's son Anton Arnold von Linck (1799–1858) worked as a full professor of constitutional law in Würzburg, Munich and Erlangen .

The brother-in-law of Franz Arnold Linck (his sister's husband) was Valentin Möhl , 1820–1832 mayor of Mannheim.

characterization

The obituary in the Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen of 1838 characterizes Franz Arnold Linck's activity as follows:

“ Linck's political convictions reflected that inner harmony and penetration of the as yet undivided elements and forces of the state, which characterize the time before the revolution, to which he owed his first journalistic education. It rested on a religious basis and therefore, above all, on the conviction that whatever value one should ascribe to written constitutions, fear of God, loyalty and trust on the part of the people, and conscientious zeal on the part of the government and its organs based on the same basis by all means remain the only reliable guarantor of the common good. "

- New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 16, 1838, Part 1, Page 98

Honors

• 1831: Honorary citizen of Regensburg

literature

• Obituary in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung ; Obituary scan scan
• Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans , 16th year, 1838, 1st part, Weimar 1840 Complete scan of the obituary for Franz Arnold Linck
• Maximilian Gritzner : Class surveys and grace acts of German sovereigns during the last three centuries , Volume 1, 1880; Entry about Franz Arnold Linck, with a description of the coat of arms
• Franz Xaver Portenlänger:  Link, Franz Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 627-629 ( digitized version ). (Article on the father Franz Conrad Linck, with information about the son)
• Walter Schärl: The composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955
• Justina Bayer: Franz Arnold Ritter von Linkh. Forest specialist and loyal patriot , in: Marita Krauss / Rainer Jedlitschka (ed.): Administrative elite and region. The regional presidents of Swabia 1817 to 2017, Munich 2017, pp. 49–57.

Web links

• Website about Franz Arnold Linck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1835, p. 21.
2. ^ To the royal college in Strasbourg
3. ^ Matriculation excerpt from Heidelberg University
4. ^ To Minister Wilhelm von Hompesch
5. ↑ On the award of the Order of the Bavarian Crown
6. ↑ On the bestowal of the hereditary nobility
7. ↑ Assumption of office as District President of Upper Palatinate
8. ↑ On the establishment of the Historical Association of the Upper Palatinate
9. ↑ To the abandonment of the office in the Upper Palatinate ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Death report in the Bayerischer Volksfreund, 1838
11. ↑ Complete scan of the ceremonial speech for the inauguration of the Wittelsbach National Monument, 1834
12. ^ About the activity as 1st chairman of the Historical Society of Swabia
13. ^ To Professor Anton Arnold von Linck