Flindt, Wilhlem

Clerk

born: 09.04.1819 in Diez

died: 06.09.1909 in Katzenelnbogen

Flindt, who had lived in Wiesbaden since 1820, attended elementary school and the Pädagogium. His father's means were not sufficient for him to study. He therefore worked from 1834 in the chancellery of the Nassau state government as a diurnist (administrative day laborer), later as a chancellor and ministerial chancellor. In 1839 he became writing teacher to the children of Duke Wilhelm zu Nassau.

One day before the great popular assembly on the Schlossplatz in Wiesbaden on March 4, 1848, Flindt was ordered by Minister of State Emil August Freiherr von Dungern to Koblenz to the commanding general in order to telegraph Adolph Duke of Nassau, who was in Berlin at the time, to return to Wiesbaden.

As secretary, Flindt accompanied Maximilian von Gagern on his journey to the courts in Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munich and Berlin. Their aim was to persuade the German courts to grant Prussia the German crown, which Frederick William IV refused. However, they succeeded in sending men of confidence to the German Bundestag and initiated preparations for the first German National Assembly and the drafting of the imperial constitution to be submitted to this assembly. As secretary to von Gagern, who was a member of the Frankfurt Pre-Parliament and the National Assembly, Flindt became its presidential secretary when it opened. After its dissolution, he went with von Gagern to Erfurt in 1850.

In 1851, Flindt was transferred to the Court of Appeal in Wiesbaden, where he became court registrar in 1864. When the Nassau judiciary was transferred to Prussian administration in 1867, he was appointed senior court secretary and in 1874 he became a clerk. He retired in 1880 after 47 years of service. Flindt then took on the post of secretary, and later syndic, of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Industry and Commerce until 1891. He was elected a city councillor in 1891.

Flindt was married to the Wiesbaden court actress Elise Seyler. He was very committed to the theater and campaigned tirelessly for a new theater building, and later for the creation of the Kaiser Friedrich monument and the Schiller monument. He was of a liberal mindset and acknowledged his political past into old age. Flindt was buried in the North Cemetery.