Friedrich Bernhard von Seckendorff

Baron Friedrich Bernhard von Seckendorff (born November 26, 1772 in Meuselwitz , † April 19, 1852 in Görlitz ) was a German politician .

Life

Seckendorff came from a Frankish noble family based in Meuselwitz and was born as the son of Colonel Friedrich Carl Freiherr von Seckendorff and Friederike Charlotte Henriette. Born from Tümpling.

In 1795 he became an auditor for the Electoral Saxon government in the Merseburg Abbey . In the following year he was promoted to government councilor. In 1798 he was transferred to the Electoral Saxon part of the county of Henneberg in Schleusingen . As a member of the government, he was responsible for benevolent foundations.

In 1800 he was proposed by the Merseburg canon Heinrich August von Holleuffer as a co-lean for his manors Benkendorf and Delitz am Berge and officially sworn in as co-leaned by the Lehnhof Dresden.

In 1801 he moved to the Saxon state capital Dresden , where he worked as a councilor of appeal . In 1805 he returned to Schleusingen and took over the post of supervisor. In this role he experienced the transition of the county of Henneberg-Schleusingen from the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia . In June 1815 he gave the speech at the establishment of the first Prussian coat of arms eagle in Henneberg, which also appeared in print. Under Prussian rule he moved to Frankfurt (Oder) in 1816 , where he took over the office of government vice-president for the Frankfurt administrative district . He later moved to Liegnitz in this role .

Seckendorff was a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences and was its president from 1842 to 1844.

Web links

• Friedrich Bernhard Seckendorff ( Memento from September 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Biographical Lexicon of Upper Lusatia