Karl Friedrich von Vincke

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Karl Friedrich von Vincke

Karl Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von Vincke (born April 17, 1800 in Minden ; † May 18, 1869 in Berlin ) was a Prussian officer - made famous through a mission to Constantinople . He later became a landowner, right-wing liberal politician and confidante of Wilhelm I.

origin

His parents were Franz Friedrich Ernst August von Vincke (born September 17, 1798, † October 30, 1866) and his wife Bertha Ganzer .

Military career

Vincke was a cousin of the leading liberal politician Georg von Vincke . He attended high school in Minden and in 1817 joined the Guard Artillery of the Prussian Army . Between 1822 and 1824 he attended the war school in Berlin . He became acquainted with Prince Wilhelm. After graduating from school, he was engaged in surveying work as a member of the army’s trigonometric department. In 1829 he was transferred to the General Staff . As a captain , he served from 1832 in the General Command of VI. Army Corps . Together with other officers including Helmuth von Moltke , Vincke was assigned to reorganize the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire in 1837 . His wife later followed him. As senior officer, Vincke was in charge of the overall management of the mission. During this time he took part in the war in Egypt. In 1839 the group returned to Prussia. In 1840 Vincke was promoted to major and was assigned to the General Staff of the Guard Corps.

Beginnings of political activity

In 1841 Vincke bought the Olbendorf estate in the Strehlen district . In order to devote himself to the management of the estate, he retired from active service in 1843. In a small memorandum from 1844 on the municipal and police administration in Lower Silesia , he made his liberal stance clear. Vincke was not a member of the United State Parliament of 1847, but he nevertheless traveled to Berlin and became acquainted with the leading liberal politicians. He presented them with a later printed memorandum on patrimonial and police jurisdiction in the eastern provinces. In this he criticized numerous shortcomings, but did not go so far as to demand the abolition of the landlord's jurisdiction.

Despite his liberal views, Vincke remained in close contact with Prince Wilhelm. When he had to flee into exile after the start of the revolution of 1848 , Vincke made a significant contribution to the prince's flight. Vincke was elected as a substitute member of the German National Assembly, but was not used. In June 1848 he was involved in making it possible for Wilhelm to return. During this time he also criticized the work of the members of the Prussian National Assembly . By Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , he was then called reactionary.

Parliamentarians

In the following years his liberal views became clearer again. In 1849 Vincke became a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament . He belonged to this until the formation of the Prussian mansion in 1854. In 1850 he was also a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament . He took his final farewell to the military in 1850 with the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1852 he was involved as a witness in the duel between Vincke and Bismarck .

Vincke initially gave up his plan to be elected to the Prussian House of Representatives . In close contact with Theodor von Bernhardi , he was also financially involved in founding the constitutionally oriented Prussian yearbooks in 1857 .

After Wilhelm had taken over the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm IV , the contact with Vincke became closer again. In 1858 Vincke spoke out against an alliance between the Liberals and the Democrats and successfully applied for a seat in the House of Representatives. He belonged to this until his death.

Vincke was a proponent of the small German solution and propagated the ideas of the German national association in Silesia. In connection with the beginning army conflict , Vincke initially advocated a two-year period of service. Although the relationship with Wilhelm I weakened, Vincke made a significant contribution to the fact that the king did not resign. In 1860 he swung in the direction of Wilhelm on the army question.

However, Vincke viewed the beginning of Otto von Bismarck's reign with concern. Later, however, he also took the side of those who supported the military reform with a paper. In the Prussian House of Representatives, Vincke joined Georg von Vincke's faction in 1862. He also belonged to this direction in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation , where he was a member of the parliamentary group of the Old Liberal Center as a member of the constituency of Breslau 4 from August 1867 until his death in 1869.

family

He married Emma Rosalie von Schulze on October 30, 1826 (* October 18, 1809, † November 22, 1865), a daughter of the owner of the Jakymisken estate near Narwa. The marriage remained childless. On January 31, 1863, the couple adopted the children of their younger brother Johann Wilhelm Philipp (* August 25, 1802 - January 19, 1861) and his wife, Sophie Frederike Amalie Schürmann († March 27, 1840).

  • Hermine Johanna Luise (born September 24, 1834) ⚭ 1871 Gustav von Stiehle (1823–1899), General of the Infantry
  • Franz Adalbert Maximilian (born December 29, 1836) ⚭ Emma von Scheel-Plessen (born April 8, 1847), daughter of Carl von Scheel-Plessen

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1869. Nineteenth year. P. 950
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Vincke, Karl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincke, Karl Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1869
Place of death Berlin