Karl Ferdinand Lindemann

Karl Ferdinand Lindemann (born November 15, 1714 in Dresden ; † April 7, 1782 there ) was an administrative politician from the Electorate of Saxony and a member of the Saxon Rétablissement , which created the basis for economic and state reform in the Electorate after the Seven Years' War.

Life

Lindemann's father was Levin Lindemann (1665–1729). He was the royal Polish and electoral Saxon cabinet secretary. The mother was Sophia Maria Abel. Lindemann was with Margarethe Luther geb. Lindemann (1460–1531), the mother of the reformer Martin Luther (1483–1546), related. After primary school in Dresden, Lindemann attended the Princely School of St. Afra in Meissen from 1729 to 1734 . His classmate was the poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769). It became a lifelong friendship. After completing his law studies at the University of Wittenberg (1734–1741), Lindemann began his military state service in 1741 as a royal-electoral prime lieutenant and then as a regimental quartermaster .

The actual professional career of Karl Ferdinand Lindemann in the electorate began in 1754 with his appointment to the Landkammer- und Bergrat and in 1763 as electoral Saxon vice-chamber president in Dresden. In this position, as head of the finance chamber, he had detailed knowledge of finances and the associated income and expenses in the Electorate. From this position he recognized the blatant financial misery of the Electorate, which had developed through the Seven Years' War and the luxurious inclinations of some members of the government. In order to counteract a financial collapse of the electorate with solutions, influential men such as Christian Gotthelf von Gutschmid (1721–1798), Friedrich Wilhelm von Ferber (1732–1800) and Karl Ferdinand Lindemann came together in 1762/1763 under the direction of Thomas von Fritsch (1700–1775) and the approval of Elector Friedrich Christian (1722–1763). The central tasks were reforms in the judiciary, agriculture and forestry, health and education, as well as in the key areas of economic, financial and tax policy. Solutions and implementations were worked out and these were put in motion for the economic reconstruction of Saxony. The given path was crowned with success. Within a few years, despite the reduction in the size of its state due to the Seven Years' War, Saxony became the leading German business location again with targeted debt reduction. Furthermore, in 1763 a completely new, more liberal, more modern domestic policy was introduced in the electorate through the rétablissement. Not all of the reformers' proposals for economic and state reform could be implemented. At the time of an absolutist ruling prince, they were thought to be dangerous to the state. However, if these reforms had been implemented, Electoral Saxony would have achieved an early constitutional state before the French Revolution , which at that time did not have a monarchical state structure on the European mainland. Lindemann died in Dresden in 1782.

family

Lindemann was given the first name Ferdinand after his uncle Christian Ferdinand Abel (1682–1761), one of the most famous violonists and viol virtuosos of the Baroque era. Abel's daughter Sophia Charlotte (born January 6, 1720) was the godchild of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). Karl Ferdinand Lindemann was related by marriage to Friedrich Wilhelm von Ferber through the marriage of his sister Charlotte-Elisabeth Ferber (1738–1795). Lindemann had a daughter Friederike Eleonore Charlotte (1761-1802). In 1783 she married the court and judiciary Karl Friedrich Treitschke (1746–1804).

literature

• Minister Graf Brühl and Karl Heinrich Heinecken, letters and files, characteristics and representations on Saxon history by Otto Eduard Schmidt, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 1921
• Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events which take place in the European courts , 25 part, Leipzig 1764, p. 803, Verlag der Heinsiussischen Buchhandlung
• Karl Heinz Blaschke: The Electoral Saxon Politics and Leipzig in the 18th Century , Wolfenbütteler Studies for Enlightenment 17 (1990), pp. 23-38
• New Address-Handbuch Kur-Sachsen p. 191, Frank Gert am Mayn, Franz Warrentrapp MDCCIXXX II 1782
• CF Gellert's correspondence , edited by John F. Reynolds, Volume III, 1991 Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.
• The current Chursächsische mining state. The Berggemach, Vice President Carl Ferdinand Lindemann, October 30, 1773
• German Gender Book Volume 76, p. 367
• Dresdner Hefte 16, Contributions to the Cultural History, Heft 6 (1988) p. 15
• Wolfgang Martens, Leipzig: Enlightenment and Bourgeoisie , 1990 Walter de Gruyter
• Reiner Groß: Die Wettiner , Kohlhammer Urban paperbacks