Christian Minkus


Christian Minkus represented Silesian constituencies of the former German provinces Rosenberg O.S. and Kreuzburg O.S. as a member of the Frankfurt Assembly.

Life

He was born in May or June 1770 in Klein-Lassowitz, Silesia, as the son of a farmer. He travelled through Upper Silesia as a salesman and thus became familiar with the needs of the local population. Through this awareness, Minkus became a representative of the counties Rosenberg O.S. and Kreuzburg O.S. in the Frankfurt National Assembly from May 29, 1848 to May 26, 1849. He was one of the oldest members of the first German National Assembly and was a member of the left-leaning faction Deutscher Hof and, after November 21, 1848, the united left coalition, the Centralmärzverein. Minkus voted for Friedrich Wilhelm IV to become the German Emperor. In October 1848, he was remanded to custody pending investigations into accusations of incitement to treason, murder, and conspiracy against the state after the death of politicians Felix Lichnowsky and Hans von Auserwald at the hands of a mob during the September 1848 riots. An extradition request by the municipal court of Rosenberg was rejected in January 1849 by the National Assembly. Minkus died in Marienfeld, Silesia, later in November that year.
On March 7, 1849, Minkus wrote in the Parliament's album: