Friedrich Theodor von Merckel

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Friedrich Theodor Merckel , also Merkel , from 1828 von Merckel (born November 4, 1775 in Breslau , Lower Silesia ; † April 10, 1846 ibid) was the royal Prussian President of the Province of Silesia .

origin

The uncle of the writer Wilhelm von Merckel (1803–1861) came from a Thuringian family whose direct lineage began at the end of the 14th century with Matthes Merkir (Merker) († 1405–1408), councilor of Schmalkalden . His parents were the businessman Esaias Christoph Merckel (born June 10, 1740 - † November 2, 1804) and his wife Helene Wilhelmine Kretschmer (* May 19, 1750 - † October 16, 1790).

Life

After studying law and political science and obtaining a doctorate in Halle (Saale) , he took over the judicial administration of the countlich von Althann'schen Fideikommissgüter , became a judicial commissioner and notary in 1798 , an assessor in Breslau in 1799 and court and criminal councilor in 1800 .

From 1804 to 1808 he was a member of the Wroclaw War and Domain Chamber , from 1808/09 to 1813 Vice President of the Government of the Province of Silesia. In the years 1816 to 1820 and 1825 to 1845 he was the royal Prussian President in Silesia. In the years between 1820 and 1825 he retired as a privateer to the Ober- Thomaswaldau estate, which was only acquired at that time , in the Bunzlau district , and studied philosophy and history. Due to illness, he was relieved of his office as Upper President of Silesia on May 16, 1845 and replaced by the hapless Wilhelm von Wedell .

Merckel was raised to the Prussian nobility on April 10, 1828 in Berlin , whereupon he was appointed a real Privy Councilor with the predicate of excellence on September 11 .

Otto Linke (1846–1930) characterizes Merckel in the monograph that he dedicated to Merckel in 1907 as follows:

"[...] full of the love of truth, a despiser of every empty phrase and hypocrisy, he did not allow himself to be misled during his studies at the Halle university by the dreams of cosmopolitanism and the philosophers who even back then believed that people could be. they would be docilely delighted from the chair. The torch of reason with which, as Treitschke says, Frederick the Great shone into the world of dusty prejudices , illuminated the right path for him. "

family

Merckel married Caroline Willers on May 21, 1801 in Breslau (* October 11, 1777; † February 23, 1835). The couple had several children:

  • Friedrich Theodor (* October 23, 1802; † September 23, 1875), Government Councilor ⚭ Johanna Marie Luise von Mühler (* November 24, 1808; † December 20, 1855)
  • Hermann Gustav (March 23, 1804; † April 9, 1844) ⚭ 1837 Minona Kornelia Johanna Sack (* July 2, 1812; † August 11, 1866)
  • Felix Ottomar (* 7 August 1810; † 27 June 1866), Senior Councilor ⚭ 1845 Minona Kornelia Johanna Sack (* 2 July 1812; † 11 August 1866)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Allgemeine Zeitung , Augsburg, No. 107, April 17, 1846, p. 854 books.google ;
    Leipzig Repertory of German and Foreign Literature . 4th year. 2nd volume. Leipzig 1848. p. 240 books.google ;
    New necrology of the Germans . Volume 24, 1846. First part. Weimar 1848. pp. 206 ff books.google ;
    Wippermann: s: ADB: Merckel, Friedrich Theodor von (1885);
    Fuchs: NDB (1994);
    deviating (died in Ober Thomaswaldau) apparently only - Ludwig Petry , Josef Joachim Menzel: Geschichte Schlesiens , 1999, volume 3. Page 48 books.google , and
    Roland Gehrke: Landtag and public. Provincial parliamentarism in Silesia 1825–1845 . Böhlau 2009. p. 383 fn. 563 books.google .
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, page 443, Volume 113 of the complete series, C. a. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2 .
  3. ^ Wippermann: s: ADB: Merckel, Friedrich Theodor von (1885)
  4. ^ Otto Linke, Friedrich Theodor von Merckel in the service of the fatherland . E. Wohlfahrt 1907. p. 1 f. books.google
  5. Uwe Kambach (arrangement): The marriage in the Schlesische Provinzialbl Blätter , page 142, Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt (Aisch) 1994, ISBN 3-7686-2064-6 .