Georg Christoph Finck von Finckenstein

Georg Christoph Finck von Finckenstein , also Georg Christoph Finck zu Finckenstein , (* October 1632 ; † June 9, 1697 ) was a Brandenburg-Prussian statesman .

Life

Origin and family

Georg Christoph Finck von Finckenstein was a member of the East Prussian noble family Finck von Finckenstein . His parents were the Brandenburg-Prussian cavalry master and district judge of Neidenburg Christoph III. Finck von Finckenstein and his first wife, the former widow of Christoph Albrecht von Kunheim, whose name was unknown and who died before 1656.

Finckenstein married Marie Louise von Hoverbeck († approx. 1669), a daughter of Johann von Hoverbeck (1606–1682) , in their first marriage in 1668 . He went into a second marriage in 1690 with Maria Esther Tüsel von Daltitz (1630-1691), widowed David von Proeck on Koppershagen. He had three children who all died before 1697.

Career

Finckenstein had been enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg since May 1650 and studied law . He continued his studies in Paris in 1654 and in Bourges in 1655 . At the beginning of 1657 he was electoral Brandenburg court and chamberlain . From 1658 he accompanied Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg on the campaign and in February 1659 was with him in the field camp at Wiborg . Until 1663 he held the office of rough cutter . As early as May 1662 he was eligible for a position as governor in Prussia, but did not become governor of the Rhine until autumn 1663 , with which he resigned from court service at the same time. In April 1667 he received an entitlement to a council position at the tribunal , and in 1673 another to a district administration office . He was promoted to major general in 1678 and in exchange for his position in the Rhine or Johannisburg , he became governor and governor of Schaaken in 1679 . Finckenstein was in February 1680 senior appellate judge and 1682 governor of Memel . In 1688 he was promoted to lieutenant general and in 1688, shortly before the elector's death, to senior chamberlain. With the change of government, he resigned from the latter office. In 1689 he was ambassador for a Brandenburg mission in Poland and in September of the same year he was governor of Brandenburg . Finally, in July 1690, he was promoted to Real Privy Councilor and Oberburggraf in the Duchy of Prussia .

literature

• Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Studies on the higher office holdings of Brandenburg-Prussia (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, supplement 8). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2001, p. 472.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The king. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Secret State Council on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 383, no. 109.