Aegidius Christoph from the east

Aegidius Christoph von der Osten , also written as Egidus , (* 1661 ; † 1741 ) was a Prussian district administrator in Western Pomerania . He headed the Neustettin district until 1732 .

He came from the noble family of the East . His father Joachim Wedig von der Osten was a major in the French service and heir to Pinnow , Dummerfitz and Eulenburg . His mother Anna Dorothea was born from Podewils .

He studied from 1679 at the University of Wittenberg . He later became district administrator of the Neustettin district and court judge. He resigned his office as district administrator in 1732; his successor was his son Casimir Gerhard von der Osten .

He was the heir to Pinnow , Burzen , Klein Born and other estates. He was married three times and left behind five sons, including Johann Otto Heinrich von der Osten , who rose in the Prussian army colonel, Matthias Conrad von der Osten , was the president of the Kurmark war and domain chamber, and Casimir Gerhard von der Osten , be Successor as district administrator.

Footnotes

1. ^ Johann Gottfried Dienemann: News from the Order of St. John, in particular from its master class . Berlin 1767, p. 386 ( online , in the family tree).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 710 ( limited preview in the Google book search - in the article about Matthias Conrad von der Osten).