Magnus von Brünneck

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Magnus von Brünneck, portrayed by Adolph Menzel .

Carl Otto Magnus von Brünneck (born January 28, 1786 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † December 24, 1866 in Berlin ) was a Prussian officer , most recently a colonel , landowner and politician.

Life

origin

Magnus was the son of the later field marshal and governor of Liebenwalde and Zehdenick Wilhelm Magnus von Brünneck and his wife Charlotte, née von Pannewitz.

Magnus von Brünneck

Military career

Brünneck spent his childhood in Köslin and Königsberg and attended the military school there. He then moved to the University of Königsberg and the Military Academy in Berlin. There he was among other things a student of Scharnhorst . From 1806 he was a regimental adjutant with the Blücher Hussars and took part in the battle of Auerstädt . In 1810 he took his leave as Rittmeister . In the Wars of Liberation from 1813 he took part in the head of the East Prussian Landwehr Cavalry Division he had formed.

In 1817 he took his leave with the rank of colonel . He then devoted himself to the management of his estates and made a name for himself as a successful sheep farmer. In 1840 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV conferred the dignity of Oberburggrave in the Kingdom of Prussia .

Political

Brünneck was the head of a circle of aristocrats who were loyal to the king but strived for liberal progress. In 1846/47 he was one of the proponents of a Prussian constitution under threat of boycotting the United State Parliament if necessary . During the revolution of 1848/49 Brünneck was an opponent of the determined democrats as well as the cabinets of the counter-revolution. In the 1850s he was also in opposition to the reactionary governments and also rejected Otto von Bismarck .

Member of Parliament

Since 1831 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Prussia and was Landtag Marshal in 1847/48 . In 1842 and 1848 he was a member of the United States Committees representing the knighthood of the Province of Prussia . In 1847/48 he was a member of the United State Parliament , then in 1848 a member of the Prussian National Assembly for the constituency of Lebus and senior president in parliament. In 1850 he was a member of the House of States (First Chamber) of the Erfurt Union Parliament . Between 1848 and 1854 he was a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament for various electoral districts. From 1854 until his death he was a member of the Prussian mansion as Oberburggraf owner of one of the four high state offices in the Kingdom of Prussia .

family

Bellschwitz manor around 1860, Duncker collection

Brünneck was married to Luise Caroline Christiane, née von der Goltz (1794-1837) , since 1810 . In his second marriage in 1838 he married Wilhelmine Sophie, née Freiin von der Goltz (1798–1839).

After the death of his father, Brünneck became the master of the goods in Bellschwitz , Trebnitz, Hermersdorf and Wulkow near Trebnitz in the Lebus district in Brandenburg .

From his second marriage comes:

  • August Magnus Wilhelm (* March 7, 1839; † April 12, 1917), legal historian, honorary professor in Halle ⚭ 1868 Mariane Luise Amalie Bernhardine Anna Elisabet (Elly) von Schön (* June 3, 1848; † July 15, 1939)

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SURNAME Brünneck, Magnus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brünneck, Carl Otto Magnus von; Brünneck, Karl Otto Magnus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian landowner, military and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1866
Place of death Berlin