Botho of Oldenburg

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Botho von Oldenburg (born December 15, 1814 in Beisleiden, Samland , † May 14, 1888, ibid) was a Prussian major agrarian and politician.

Origin and family environment

Botho Karl Elimar Adalbert Gottvertrau von Oldenburg came from an ancient noble family that originally belonged to the knighthood of the Archdiocese of Bremen and has been documented since 1262, which spread over Mecklenburg early on and which later established branches in Denmark , East Prussia and the Baltic States . He belonged to the East Prussian branch of the Mecklenburg line.

Life and Political Work

Following the family tradition, he joined the Prussian army , but left the army soon after the upgrade to Rittmeister to devote himself to the administration of his extensive inherited agricultural property. Since he owned a lot of land in East and West Prussia , he also began to deal with questions and problems of agricultural policy, which finally brought him to the Prussian manor house in 1878 as a delegate of the East Prussian landowning nobility , of which he was a member until his death in 1888. He had already donated a Fideikommiß from his main estate, Beisleiden , and had become its first Fideikommiß master. In addition to both suffering, he also owned the Köllmisch-Wollwitten estates in the Prussian Eylau district and Januschau in the Rosenberg district in West Prussia. In addition, he was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Botho von Oldenburg was married three times. From his 2nd marriage to Marie von Arnim (* 1829, † 1868) two sons were born, and from his 3rd marriage to Marie Countess zu Eulenburg he had a daughter. Famous and notorious depending on the political point of view, his 2nd son Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau (* 1855, † 1937) on Januschau, who was a conservative member of the Reichstag during the Empire and in the Weimar Republic, was of great political influence.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch 947, original in the Schwerin Secret and Main Archives
  2. ↑ compare: List of the members of the Prussian manor house
  3. ^ Genealogical Manual of the Nobility , Volume A XXI, page 291, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn, 1990
personal data
SURNAME Oldenburg, Botho von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian agrarian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Both sorrow, Samland
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1888
Place of death Both sorrow, Samland