August von Oertzen

August Otto Ernst von Oertzen , perhaps Baron von Oertzen (born September 11, 1777 in Kotelow , † April 3, 1837 in Berlin ) was Mecklenburg-Strelitz's minister of state , chamber president and landowner on Klockow .

Parentage and family

August von Oertzen (No. 389 of the gender census ) was a descendant of the noble family von Oertzen , which belonged to the indigenous nobility in Mecklenburg . His father, Adolph Friedrich von Oertzen (# 385; 1747–1796), was a landowner on Klockow , Kotelow, Lübbersdorf , Wittenborn and Vice- Land Marshal of the Stargard estate . His mother, Ida (Margarethe Ernestine) (* 1749), came from the Miltzow family of the old Mecklenburg noble family von Dewitz .

Oertzen himself married Charlotte (Sophie Albertine Wilhelmine), born on May 8, 1800 in Neubrandenburg . Freiin von Jasmund (1780–1818), daughter of the Württemberg State Minister Ludwig Helmuth Heinrich Freiherr von Jasmund (1748–1825). In 1810 she belonged to the Neustrelitz court society, which was present during the last days of Queen Luise of Prussia when she died in Hohenzieritz and was one of the first to report on it.

After the early death of his wife on January 21, 1818, Oertzen concluded with Louise, born on June 9, 1819 in Tützpatz . von Plessen (1798–1883; from the younger line Damshagen ) a second marriage.

Both marriages had a total of six children, including the lawyer and composer Carl (Ludwig) von Oertzen .

Professional background

August von Oertzen attended the Knight Academy (Brandenburg an der Havel) and studied law at the University of Göttingen . He then undertook another trip through southern Germany and returned to Mecklenburg at the end of 1798 after receiving and leasing Klockow from his father's property in 1796. In 1798 he joined the Mecklenburg-Strelitz regional service as a chamberlain and auditor at the judicial office in Neustrelitz . In 1800 he was appointed to the chancellery and in 1804 to the government council.

In 1810, Duke Charles II appointed him one (of two) state ministers with the title of excellence . Oertzen was one of the highest-ranking government officials in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, together with Minister of State Carl (Wilhelm Friedrich David) von Pentz (1776-1827). In this function he was delegated to the Congress of Vienna as the second authorized negotiator of Mecklenburg in 1814 as a representative of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region - alongside the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Minister Leopold von Plessen .

August von Oertzen sealed and signed the German Federal Act in 1815 in the name of his sovereign, as evidenced by the text editions published in the same year and later with the title of baron . In 1831 August von Oertzen was appointed President of the Chamber under the reign of Grand Duke Georg .

Oertzen resigned from his office in 1836 for health reasons and died the following year as a result of severe burns which he suffered from the negligence of his attending physician in Berlin.

The text for his grave song, set to music by Georg Friedrich Mantey von Dittmer , was written by Johann Friedrich Bahrdt . His iron, baldachin-like grave monument with balustrade in neo-Gothic shapes based on motifs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the old Neustrelitz cemetery was scrapped after 1945 despite efforts by Annalize Wagner to preserve it.

Herrenhaus Kotelow - Birthplace of August von Oertzen (2012)

medal

Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class (Grand Cross)
House Order of the Golden Lion , Knight (March 27, 1817)

literature

Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Documented history of the family von Oertzen. Volume 4, p. 474 f.
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7171 .
Sebastian Joost: Oertzen, August Otto Ernst von. In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Vol. 4 (2004), pp. 199-202.
Rajko Lippert: Oertzen, August Otto Ernst von (1777-1837). In: Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Vol. 2 (2002), pp. 476-478.
Wilhelm Thedwig von Oertzen : Life and Work of the Mecklenburg-Strelitzer State Minister August v. Oertzen ad H. Kotelow. In: Das Carolinum, Vol. 55 (1991), No. 105, pp. 25-30.

Web links

Literature about August von Oertzen in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ A baron title by August von Oertzen can be found in contemporary documents and publications on the Congress of Vienna and in some later secondary forms. An explicit documentary award of the title is not yet known, a gracious recognition on the part of the Mecklenburg Princely House can neither be proven nor ruled out. All (official government) state calendars of Mecklenburg-Strelitz lead v. Oertzen over the entire period of his office without baron title. In the sex history v. Oertzen ( Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch et al., 6 parts, 1847-1891) as well as in more recent genealogical accounts, no baron class is mentioned for him. Sebastion Joost mentioned in: Biographisches Lexikon für Mecklenburg , Volume 4 (2004), pp. 199–202, also no Freiherrntitel. Tobias C. Bringmann, Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963 - Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , 2001, p. 487 , names him, however, with the title of baron. He was addressed as early as 1811 with the baron title , which was synonymous with nobility and was also used synonymously in the 19th century , according to a statement in the newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt on October 19, 1811, namely that at the inauguration of the Luis monument , His Excellency the Minister of State Baron von Oertzen had arrived in Gransee on behalf of the ruling Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The diary of the Congress of Vienna (from September 1, 1814 to July 11, 1815) also lists him with the title of baron ( digitized version ) regarding his arrival on September 21, 1814 . A “list of delegates” [for the Congress of Vienna] as a “compilation of the papers of Duke Albrecht von Sachsen-Teschen” ( digitized version ) is mentioned by Oertzen without a baron title. Also in government official sources of Mecklenburg v. Oertzen always mentioned without the title of baron. The Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology also announces the death of its two honorary members without mentioning a baron title “The names of Plessen (grand ducal meklenburg = Schwerin secret council = and government = president, died on April 25, 1837) and von Oertzen (grand ducal meklenburg = Strelitzischer Minister of State, died on April 3, 1837) “ (see annual report of the association .... In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity, Vol. 2 (1837), p. 3). A media report on his 25-year tenure anniversary as Minister of State knows no baron title (See. Freimüthiges Abendblatt Vol. 17 (1835), no. 841, Suppl., Col. 131.) As "Baron" were in the old Mecklenburg colloquially many landowners addressed regardless of whether the so titled actually belonged to the baron or not. Some Mecklenburg landowners were nevertheless not dubbed “Herr Baron” , cf. a list of subscribers for the history of England by David Hume , translated into German by Gebhard Erich Leopold Timaeus, 1806: in it the heir (landowner) on Kotelow, the captain of Oertzen, was named with the title of baron, while the heir to Klockow, who was also the owner of the estate, was named Councilor von Oertzen, was named without a baron title ( digitized version ). The professional status of a baron title was highly controversial in legal and aristocratic circles at that time and was linked to increasingly strict evidence of matriculation and evidence of nobility. (See , inter alia, Eduard Heydenreich: Handbook of practical genealogy. Vol. 1. Leipzig, 1913. S. 361ff.) Such evidence of a baron title actually awarded by August v. Oertzen has been missing in every respect so far.

↑ Today the district of Galenbeck . The place of birth is not: Klockow, as Brüssow says in the Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen

↑ Königlich-Württembergisches Hof- und Staats-Handbuch , 1810, p. 117

^ Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel, The German Writers of the Nineteenth Century: MZ , Leipzig 1825, pp. 69–72 .

↑ 1 son from first marriage, 3 sons and 2 daughters from second marriage. Cf. F. von Oertzen [arr.]: Pocket book of the family von Oertzen. Berlin, 1899. p. 25. - On the second marriage cf. also Max Naumann: LOUISE Ernestine Eleonore Wilhelmine Adolfine Karoline. In: The Plessen - ancestry from the XIII. to XX. Century . Published by Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1971, p. 105. - That Minister of State Jasper von Oertzen (1801–1874) was a son of August v. O., as the author of a family article claims in the Neue Deutsche Biographie , is wrong.

↑ Negotiations in the Assembly of the Estates of the Kingdom of Würtemberg, in 1815 , Part 13, 1815 ( p. 54 ), Protocols of the German Federal Assembly , Volume 1, 1817, pp. 33 and 43 , Archives diplomatiques pour l'histoire du tems et des états , quatrieme volume (Diplomatic Archive for Contemporary and State History, Volume 4), Stuttgart and Tübingen 1824, pp. 5 and 25 , Georg Ferdinand Döllinger , collection of the existing ordinances in the area of the internal state administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria official sources and systematically sorted , Volume 20, Munich 1839, p. 5

↑ Annalize Wagner: About the cultural history of the 'Old Cemetery' in Neustrelitz (1769–1945) . In: Das Carolinum 47 (1983) No. 89, pp. 7-38. [Fig. P. 34].

personal data
SURNAME	Oertzen, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oertzen, August Otto Ernst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	President of the Chamber and Minister in Mecklenburg-Strelitz
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kotelov
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1837
Place of death	Berlin

[1] A baron title by August von Oertzen can be found in contemporary documents and publications on the Congress of Vienna and in some later secondary forms. An explicit documentary award of the title is not yet known, a gracious recognition on the part of the Mecklenburg Princely House can neither be proven nor ruled out. All (official government) state calendars of Mecklenburg-Strelitz lead v. Oertzen over the entire period of his office without baron title. In the sex history v. Oertzen ( Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch et al., 6 parts, 1847-1891) as well as in more recent genealogical accounts, no baron class is mentioned for him. Sebastion Joost mentioned in: Biographisches Lexikon für Mecklenburg , Volume 4 (2004), pp. 199–202, also no Freiherrntitel. Tobias C. Bringmann, Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963 - Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , 2001, p. 487 , names him, however, with the title of baron. He was addressed as early as 1811 with the baron title , which was synonymous with nobility and was also used synonymously in the 19th century , according to a statement in the newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt on October 19, 1811, namely that at the inauguration of the Luis monument , His Excellency the Minister of State Baron von Oertzen had arrived in Gransee on behalf of the ruling Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The diary of the Congress of Vienna (from September 1, 1814 to July 11, 1815) also lists him with the title of baron ( digitized version ) regarding his arrival on September 21, 1814 . A “list of delegates” [for the Congress of Vienna] as a “compilation of the papers of Duke Albrecht von Sachsen-Teschen” ( digitized version ) is mentioned by Oertzen without a baron title. Also in government official sources of Mecklenburg v. Oertzen always mentioned without the title of baron. The Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology also announces the death of its two honorary members without mentioning a baron title “The names of Plessen (grand ducal meklenburg = Schwerin secret council = and government = president, died on April 25, 1837) and von Oertzen (grand ducal meklenburg = Strelitzischer Minister of State, died on April 3, 1837) “ (see annual report of the association .... In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity, Vol. 2 (1837), p. 3). A media report on his 25-year tenure anniversary as Minister of State knows no baron title (See. Freimüthiges Abendblatt Vol. 17 (1835), no. 841, Suppl., Col. 131.) As "Baron" were in the old Mecklenburg colloquially many landowners addressed regardless of whether the so titled actually belonged to the baron or not. Some Mecklenburg landowners were nevertheless not dubbed “Herr Baron” , cf. a list of subscribers for the history of England by David Hume , translated into German by Gebhard Erich Leopold Timaeus, 1806: in it the heir (landowner) on Kotelow, the captain of Oertzen, was named with the title of baron, while the heir to Klockow, who was also the owner of the estate, was named Councilor von Oertzen, was named without a baron title ( digitized version ). The professional status of a baron title was highly controversial in legal and aristocratic circles at that time and was linked to increasingly strict evidence of matriculation and evidence of nobility. (See , inter alia, Eduard Heydenreich: Handbook of practical genealogy. Vol. 1. Leipzig, 1913. S. 361ff.) Such evidence of a baron title actually awarded by August v. Oertzen has been missing in every respect so far.

[2] Today the district of Galenbeck . The place of birth is not: Klockow, as Brüssow says in the Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen

[3] Königlich-Württembergisches Hof- und Staats-Handbuch , 1810, p. 117

[4] Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel, The German Writers of the Nineteenth Century: MZ , Leipzig 1825, pp. 69–72 .

[5] 1 son from first marriage, 3 sons and 2 daughters from second marriage. Cf. F. von Oertzen [arr.]: Pocket book of the family von Oertzen. Berlin, 1899. p. 25. - On the second marriage cf. also Max Naumann: LOUISE Ernestine Eleonore Wilhelmine Adolfine Karoline. In: The Plessen - ancestry from the XIII. to XX. Century . Published by Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1971, p. 105. - That Minister of State Jasper von Oertzen (1801–1874) was a son of August v. O., as the author of a family article claims in the Neue Deutsche Biographie , is wrong.

[6] Negotiations in the Assembly of the Estates of the Kingdom of Würtemberg, in 1815 , Part 13, 1815 ( p. 54 ), Protocols of the German Federal Assembly , Volume 1, 1817, pp. 33 and 43 , Archives diplomatiques pour l'histoire du tems et des états , quatrieme volume (Diplomatic Archive for Contemporary and State History, Volume 4), Stuttgart and Tübingen 1824, pp. 5 and 25 , Georg Ferdinand Döllinger , collection of the existing ordinances in the area of the internal state administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria official sources and systematically sorted , Volume 20, Munich 1839, p. 5

[7] Annalize Wagner: About the cultural history of the 'Old Cemetery' in Neustrelitz (1769–1945) . In: Das Carolinum 47 (1983) No. 89, pp. 7-38. [Fig. P. 34].