Björn von Finckenstein | |
Birth Name: | Björn Graf Finck von Finckenstein |
Birth Date: | 23 July 1958 |
Birth Place: | Usakos, South West Africa, South Africa |
Death Place: | Swakopmund, Namibia |
Nationality: | Namibian |
Office: | Mayor of Windhoek |
Term Start: | 1995 |
Term End: | 1998 |
Successor: | Immanuel Ngatjizeko |
Björn Graf Finck von Finckenstein (23 July 1958 – 17 December 2021) was a Namibian politician.[1]
Only child and son of Günther Georg Wilhelm Graf Finck von Finckenstein (Farm Tjirundu-South, 17 June 1934 - Windhoek, 15 September 1990) and wife (Otjiwarongo, 8 March 1958) Anka-Margit von Goldammer (Karibib, 26 August 1936 - Usakos, 22 May 1983).
His paternal grandfather Friedrich Georg Bechthold Graf Finck von Finckenstein (Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, 2 September 1901 - Otjiwarongo, 23 December 1965) went to German South West Africa, where he married (Omaruru, 2 July 1932) his paternal grandmother Dorothea Freiin von Puttkamer (Ornassau, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany, 13 February 1907 - Omaruru, 6 November 1977), who also went to live in the German South West Africa. They also had four daughters there:
He served as Mayor of Windhoek from 1995 to 1998.[2]
He married in Windhoek, Namibia, on 6 November 1992 Christine Kendzia, born in Windhoek, South West Africa, South Africa, on 29 September 1971, and had one daughter and one son: