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Finck von Finckenstein
Battle cry: Sub Utraque Duce
Details
Alternative names	Interpretation: Under one leadership (represented by the star) should the family always stay together in good times and in bad times (represented by the rising and setting half moons)
Earliest mention	in the Levant long before the Third Crusade in 1189; as a trophy brought to Germany
Towns	Acre in the Levant, Deutsch-Eylau and Finckenstein in East Prussia
Families	Finck von Finckenstein

Origins

The first representative of this family appeared authentically with 'Nicze of Roghusen' in 1388 in Roggenhausen in East Prussia according to the state archive in Koenigsberg. Under its current name, the house appears authentically in 1451 with 'Michael Fincke' who calls himself 'Finck von Roggenhausen' in 1474. The family became 1710 as 'Finck von Finckenstein' Imperial Counts (Reichsgrafen) of the Holy Roman Empire and Counts (Grafen) in Prussia.

The Finck von Finckenstein's Imperial Count Diploma of 1710 determines as the cradle of the house of Finck von Finckenstein the today dilapidated Finkenstein castle ruin in Carinthia. Hereafter the house appears for the first time 1143 with Gotwold von Finkenstein, Master of Finkenstein in Carinthia. The Carinthian branch of the Finckensteins died in the 14th century, a junior branch, however, joined the Knights Hospitaller in order to conquer and christianise Old Prussia after possibly participating in the Third Crusade. Again, according to the Imperial Count Diploma Konrad Finck von Finckenstein, originally from Carinthia, came in 1300 with 100 knights to join the Order of St John in its drive to conquer Old Prussia along side the Teutonic Knights.

Peoples

• Count Ernst Finck von Finckenstein, Electoral Prussian Chamberlain, named "The Rich Shepherd", (1633–1717)
  • Count Ernst Friedrich Finck von Finckenstein, companion of King George I on his first passage to Great Britain in 1714 and later Royal Prussian War- and Budget Minister (1698–1753)
  • Countess Katharina Dorothea Finck von Finckenstein, ancestress of European Imperial and Royal families (1700-1728)
• Count Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein, Prussian Field Marshal (1660-1735)
  • Count Friedrich Ludwig Finck von Finckenstein, Royal Prussian Lieutenant General (1709–1785)
    • Count Karl Friedrich Ludwig Albrecht Finck von Finckenstein, Royal Prussian Budget- and Justice Minister, Chief Minister of the East Prussian Government (1743–1803)
  • Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, Prussian First Minister (1714-1800)
    • Count Friedrich Ludwig Karl Finck von Finckenstein, Chief Minister of the East-Brandenburg ("Neumark") Government (1745–1818)
      • Count Wilhelm Karl Leopold Finck von Finckenstein, Royal Prussian Lieutenant General [(1792–1877)
• Count Karl Bonaventura Finck von Finckenstein, Prussian Lord Chamberlain and Member of the Prussian House of Lords ("Preußisches Herrenhaus")(1794–1865)
  • Count Bonaventura Finck von Finckenstein, Master of Jäskendorf (1872–1950)
    • Count Hans-Konrad (Hako) Finck von Finckenstein, hedge funds capital raising director (* 1961)
  • Count Ottfried Finck von Finckenstein, German author(1901-1987)
  • Countess Eva Finck von Finckenstein, German politician (1903–1994)
    • Count Konrad Finck von Finckenstein, Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications, (* 1945)
  • Count Björn Finck von Finckenstein, Namibian Politician (* 1958)
• Countess Amalie Ludowika Finck von Finckenstein, mother of Russian Field Marshal Prince Peter Khristianovich Wittgenstein
• Count Karl August Finck von Finckenstein, General of the Prussian Infantry (1835–1915)
• Count Wilhelm Heinrich Karl Finck von Finckenstein Chamberlain of German Emperor Wilhelms II and member of the Prussian House of Lords ("Preußisches Herrenhaus") (1850–1899)
• Count Albrecht Alexander Otto Finck von Finckenstein, Major General (1859–1936)
• Count Konrad Wilhelm Gustav Finck von Finckenstein, Major General (* 1862)
• Count Bernhard Gustav Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, Lieutenant General (1863–1945)