Viktor von Ponickau

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Viktor von Ponickau (born June 27, 1808 in Falkenhain , † April 7, 1889 in Meuselwitz ) was a large German landowner and administrative lawyer.

Life

Viktor von Ponickau came from the Meißnian line of the Upper Lusatian noble family von Ponikau and was the son of the Naumburg Chamber Councilor Johann Heinrich Friedrich von Ponickau on Falkenhain. He studied at the University of Leipzig and became active in the Corps Saxonia Leipzig in 1827 . On October 11, 1838, he married Elisabeth von Minckwitz (1812–1862) as a government assessor. From this marriage four children were born, from whom Georg von Ponickau inherited the paternal goods. As lord of Pohla in Demitz-Thumitz and Falkenhain, he was district administrator of the Zeitz district and chairman of the district knighthood. He earned lasting services in his office as Prussian district administrator in the province of Saxony from 1840 to 1848.

See also

Pohla Castle

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 96/170
  2. ↑ Zeitz district (territorial.de)
personal data
SURNAME Ponickau, Viktor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponickau, Johann Heinrich Viktor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION District Administrator of the Prussian District of Zeitz
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Falcon Grove
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1889
Place of death Meuselwitz