Friedrich Carl von und zu Brenken

Friedrich Carl (Karl) Dominik von und zu Brenken (born January 11, 1790 at Erpernburg Castle near Brenken; † July 11, 1867 there ) was a German nobleman from the Brenken family and a politician.

Brenken, who was a Catholic denomination, was the only child of Franz Joseph von und zu Brenken (1757-1832) and his wife Sophie Eleonore née von Wolff-Metternich (1768-1848).

Friedrich Carl attended the University of Marburg from the winter semester of 1806 (i.e. at the age of 16) . There he mainly studied law, but also history, psychology, chemistry and mathematics with Professors Bauer, Kreutzer, Wurzer, Justi and the prorector, the historian Ludwig Wachler . From the summer semester 1808 he studied in Göttingen . In the same year his father was elected to the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia . He studied economics, forest science, cameralistics and the police force with Beckmann, national economy with Lueder, national economy and politics with Sartorius, forest botany with H. Schrader, natural history with Blumenbach, private law with Goede, with Bengmann Pandekten and with J. Schrader practical geometry. In the summer semester of 1810 he left the university without an exam.

He was critical of the Kingdom of Westphalia and hated the French. He managed to avoid being drafted into the army of the Kingdom of Westphalia and was one of the first to join the Allied troops in the fall of 1813. He initially served as a volunteer hunter in Corps No. 165 under Lieutenant General Prince von Hessen-Homburg. After the disbandment of this squadron, he was assigned to the volunteer hunters of the county of Mark in July 1814. However, his wish to become a Prussian officer was not fulfilled.

From October 1814 to April 1815 he was a private visitor to the Vienna Congress in Vienna. During the rule of 100 days , he again volunteered for the military. He signed up as a second lieutenant in the 1st Rhenish Uhlan Regiment of Colonel Count Nesselrode. In August 1815 he was in command of the 4th flanking campaign of the 3rd Squadron during the French campaign. Since there were no more armed events after the Battle of Waterloo , he had no opportunity to excel in military terms and was again not accepted into Prussian military service and took leave of the army in January 1816.

In November 1817 he married Theresia von Schade († 1836) from Ahausen Castle near Finnentrop. His father transferred the Erpernburg estate to him at the same time and retired to the Holthausen estate as a retirement home. The first marriage resulted in 10 children. The eldest son was Reinhard Franz von und zu Brenken (1818–1870), Hermann von and zu Brenken (1820–1894) became a member of the German Reichstag. In September 1839 he married Maria von Haxthausen in Bonn for the second time. The second marriage had three children.

As an economist on Gut Erpernburg, he achieved a considerable increase in production by combining the lands. The estate comprised almost 1,042 acres of arable land and just under 49 acres of pasture land, which were spread over almost 140 plots. Only around 700 acres could be farmed due to the road situation. In the first 12 years, he rounded off the land by swapping the land, creating a coherent estate from 603 acres of arable land and 30 acres of pasture. In 1838 he acquired Wewer Castle and the property belonging to it.

Politically, he took conservative positions. After it turned out that Prussia not the order of HRR wanted to restore this conservatism also directed against Prussia. In 1830/31, 1845 and 1854 to 1858 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia . He was elected (in 1830 and 1845 as a deputy, then as a regular member) in the curia of the knighthood in the Paderborn constituency.

literature

• Horst Conrad: Friedrich Carl von und zu Brenken (1790-1867) - A contribution to the class conservatism, lecture before the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, Department Paderborn, on February 1, 1983, printed in: Westfälische Zeitschrift 133, 1983, p 85 ff., Digitized
• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 211.
• Norbert Reimann, The barons from and to Brenken. 800 years of family history in the Paderborn region. Paderborn, Bonifatius-Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-89710-835-6 , pp. 175-192