Emanuel Hugo Eugen Ottokar von Aderkas

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Ottokar von Aderkas (1900)

Emanuel Hugo Eugen Ottokar von Aderkas , also Ottokar Karlowitsch Aderkas , Russian Оттокар Карлович Адеркас; (Born July 5 . Jul / 17th July  1859 greg. , † 7. March 1921 in Kuressaare on Oesel ) was a Russian jurist, privy councilor and owner of the goods and Peudehof kõik on Saaremaa.

Life

Ottokar von Aderkas came from the German Baltic noble family Aderkas . He was the youngest brother of the Oesel district administrator Woldemar Alexander Emanuel Victor von Aderkas (1849-1908).

He attended high school in Arensburg. He then studied law at the Universities of Dorpat University and St. Petersburg . In 1881 Ottokar Aderkas joined the Russian Ministry of Justice , but was transferred to the imperial chancellery for the institutions of Empress Maria Feodorovna as early as 1882 .

In 1883 he used his vacation to visit 17 institutions for the blind (10 in Germany, five in Austria, one in Switzerland and one in Riga). The report he had prepared was used as an opportunity to develop a concept for the organization of similar institutions in the Russian Empire. Over the next few years, Ottokar devoted himself to setting up a system for helping the blind. In 1884 he gave a special lecture at the 5th International Blind Congress in Amsterdam.

From 1888 he was the managing director of the board of trustees “Care for the Blind” and represented the administration of the Empress Maria Institution at the 6th Congress for the Blind in Cologne . In 1893 he was an official representative of Russia at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago . In 1898 he was promoted to the State Council and headed the office of the Central Administration of the Imperial Children's Asylums.

In 1905 Ottokar represented the central administration of children's homes at the international congress for child protection. At the congress he made the proposal to set up an international committee to fight against child mortality. He was also a member of a welfare committee for the blind founded by Empress Maria Alexandrovna , a member of the Russian welfare society “Mother and Child” and from 1886 publisher of an independent magazine “Russian blind people”. In 1910 he was appointed privy councilor.

From 1908 Ottokar Aderkas was the hereditary owner of Peudehof and Koik. Later, after the revolution, he came to Arensburg and taught English at the old grammar school.

In 1896 he married Marie Peretz (1868–1942) in St. Petersburg.

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SURNAME From Aderkas, Emanuel Hugo Eugen Ottokar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aderkas, Ottokar Karlowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian administrative lawyer, Privy Councilor and owner of the Peudehof and Koik estate on Ösel
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1859
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1921
Place of death Arensburg on Oesel