Friedrich Christoph von Schmincke

Johann Friedrich Christoph Schmincke (born December 1, 1775 in Kassel ; † May 10, 1845 there ) was a minister from the Electorate of Hesse.

Life

Schmincke's father, Johann Hermann, was a senior chamber councilor and forest director in Kassel. His mother was Johanne Elisabeth Wittlich. In 1804 Schmincke married a daughter of the rural postmaster Jakob Nebelthau.

Schmincke studied law at the University of Marburg from 1791/92 . In 1802 he became a secret cabinet secretary. Schmincke followed Elector Wilhelm I into exile in 1813 .

In 1821 Schmincke was appointed Foreign Minister, in 1829 simultaneously Minister of Justice and on January 4, 1831, Minister of the Interior for 17 days.

literature

• Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on the history of the constitution , 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
• Harald Höffner: Kurhessens Ministerialvorstand the constitutional period 1831–1866 , phil. Diss., Giessen 1981.
• Hellmut Seier (Ed.): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , NG Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8), ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 .
• Winfried Speitkamp : Restoration as Transformation. Studies on the constitutional history of the Electorate of Hesse 1813-1830 , self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt, Marburg 1986 (= sources and research on Hessian history , 67).