Karl Finck von Finckenstein (General)

Karl Finck von Finckenstein (General)

Karl Alexander Friedrich August Graf Finck von Finckenstein (born July 29, 1835 in Madlitz , † August 20, 1915 in Nieder-Schönbrunn ) was a Prussian infantry general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the manor owner Alexander Graf Finck von Finckenstein (1780–1863) and his second wife Angelika, born von Zychlinska (1796–1861).

Military career

Finck joined by his upbringing in the parental home and in the cadets houses Potsdam and Berlin on April 29 in 1854 as second lieutenant in the 1st Guards Regiment walk the Prussian army one. There he was used from July 7, 1859 to October 27, 1861 as adjutant of the 2nd battalion. As a prime lieutenant and company commander he was commanded to serve at the non-commissioned officers' school in Potsdam in 1864/65 . In the war against Austria in 1866 Finck took part with his regiment in the battles at Thrush , Queen's Court and Königgrätz . For his achievements he was awarded the Crown Order III. Excellent with swords. On July 24, 1866, he was promoted to captain and appointed company commander . As such, Finck went to war against France in 1870/71 . He was seriously wounded in the fighting at St. Privat and later slightly wounded again during the siege of Paris at Pont Iblon. He received the Iron Cross 2nd class.

After the peace treaty on May 10, 1871, Finck von Finckenstein was commanded as a military attaché to the embassy in Vienna . Already in March of the following year he was appointed wing adjutant to Kaiser Wilhelm I and promoted to major on April 13, 1872 . In 1875 he returned to Germany. Leaving his position as a wing adjutant, Finck was from October 28, 1875 to December 10, 1880 commander of the Guard Jäger battalion . In the meantime he had been promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 22, 1877 and briefly appointed to represent the inspector of the inspection of hunters and riflemen. Finck was then entrusted with the leadership of the Leib Grenadier Regiment (1st Brandenburg) No. 8 in Frankfurt (Oder) , promoted to colonel on September 16, 1881 , and appointed regimental commander on March 21, 1882. In the same capacity he was transferred to the 2nd Guards Regiment on May 15, 1883 on foot . On July 9, 1887, he was again commissioned to represent the inspector of the hunters and riflemen. In addition, Finck was commanded to manage the affairs of the Reitenden Feldjägerkorps . At the same time he was promoted to major general , both positions were transferred to him on August 3, 1887. As Lieutenant General Finck then had command of the 17th division in Schwerin from March 24, 1890 to January 26, 1895 . He was then appointed General of the Infantry Commanding General of the I. Army Corps in Königsberg . Under position à la suite of the Guard-Jäger-Battalion, Finck was finally put up for disposition on January 25, 1901 .

Finck was a knight of the Black Eagle Order with the Chain .

family

He married Margarethe von Haugk (* ​​1847) on September 26, 1876 in Nieder-Schönbrunn . The couple had several children:

• Hans (* 1878)
• Karl-Otto (* 1881)
• Magarethe (* 1881)
• Anelie (* 1883) ⚭ Kerstan von Schlotheim
• Karl-Günther (* 1890)

literature

• Hugo Kroll: List of officers of the Leib Grenadier Regiment King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1. Brandenburgischen) No. 8. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1899, pp. 677-678.
• Werner Freiherr von Bock: Master list of the officer corps of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot. June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 213.
• Finck von Finckenstein, Karl Graf . in: Military weekly paper . No. 75, June 17, 1909, pp. 1721-1722.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. 1872, p. 255 , 1905, p. 272.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Gräfliche Häuser Volume XIV, Volume 105 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1993, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 121.