Heinrich Minckwitz

Heinrich Eduard Minckwitz

Minckwitz as a student at Lusatia

Heinrich Eduard Minckwitz (born March 21, 1819 in Lückersdorf , Kingdom of Saxony , † September 7, 1886 in Dresden ) was a German judge . As a liberal he was a member of the Reichstag before and after the establishment of the German Empire .

Life

Minckwitz studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1837 to 1840 . In 1840 he became active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . With a doctoral thesis on the duel , he was awarded Dr. iur. PhD . He described the student fencing practice at that time and commented on the criminal assessment. He became a lawyer and court director in Dresden. In 1848 he was a member of the pre-parliament in Frankfurt's Paulskirche . As a leading Saxon revolutionary, he organized the semi-military fatherland clubs. Since he had participated in the Dresden May Uprising in 1849 , he was charged with high treason .

Together with Karl Mehnert and Gustav Philipp , he founded the Agricultural Loan Association for the Kingdom of Saxony in 1866 . From 1869 to 1881 he was a representative of the 17th urban constituency of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament . As early as 1867 he was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a member of the German Progressive Party . After the founding of the Reich, he sat in the Reichstag from 1871 to 1878 . Most recently he worked as a lawyer in Dresden.

De fundamento agendi . Leipzig 1842.
Political Creed . Dresden 1848.
At the Dresden City Court criminal department . Dresden 1849 (letter)
Expert opinion on the ordinance of the Federal Presidium of December 22nd: concerning the introduction of the regulations applicable in Prussia on the use of military personnel for communal requirements throughout the federal territory . 1869.

Egbert Weiß : Corps students in the Paulskirche. Einst und Jetzt , special issue 1990. ZDB -ID 300218-4 , p. 49, 51.
Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden 2001, p. 116.
Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 428-429.

personal data
SURNAME	Minckwitz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Minckwitz, Heinrich Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German revolutionary and parliamentarian (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lückersdorf , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1886
Place of death	Dresden