Georg August Heinrich von Kinckel

Georg August Heinrich von Kinckel

Georg August Heinrich von Kinckel (v. Kinkel) (born June 5, 1741 in Heilbronn , † November 21, 1827 in Nuremberg ) was a Bavarian treasurer and lieutenant general .

Life

He was a son of the chivalrous legal consultant August Wolfgang Künckelin (1710–1768), who had been raised to the nobility in 1752 as Baron von Kinckel .

Kinckel joined the Electoral Palatinate Army in 1757 , where he was promoted to captain in 1763 and major in the body regiment of Elector Karl Theodor in 1775 . He had close ties to the Palatinate court in Mannheim and had owned the palace in Dirmstein since 1765 at the latest . Together with Christian von Failly († 1778) he wrote the new Palatine War Regulations. In 1787, as a colonel, he was in command of the regiment "Count Palatine von Birkenfeld" . In 1792 he was major general . During the siege of Mannheim in 1795 he was one of the advisors of the Palatinate governor Franz Albert Leopold von Oberndorff , who decided to surrender the city without a fight. To prevent his property in Dirmstein and Heimersheim near Alzey from being confiscated , he sold his goods to his brother, the Dutch officer Heinrich August von Kinckel . He then acquired the Rennhof near Hüttenfeld himself , which he extended to include the right to use 636 acres of pastures and meadows from the communities of Hemsbach and Laudenbach .

He married Caroline Christiane von Clermont (1761-1826) in Aachen on August 15, 1797. There were no offspring from the marriage. In 1802 he came to the Lower Rhine as a brigadier and owner of an infantry regiment, whereupon he sold his Palatinate property in several steps until 1809. During the Tyrolean popular uprising in 1809, he led the Bavarian general command in Innsbruck , where he fell into the hands of the Tyrolean freedom fighters as a prisoner of war on April 12, 1809. He was released six months after the peace treaty in Vienna and was then governor in Nuremberg, where he died in 1827.

literature

• Karl Hugo Popp, Hans Riexinger : On the history of the Heilbronn family Künckelin / von Kinckel. In: Heilbronn Historical Association . Jahrbuch 30, 1983, pp. 145-166.