Fredrik from Otter

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Fredrik Wilhelm von Otter.

Baron Fredrik Wilhelm von Otter (born April 11, 1833 in Fimmersta, municipality of Töreboda , † March 9, 1910 in Karlskrona ) was admiral and Swedish Prime Minister from 1900 to 1902 .

Military career

Von Otter came from a wealthy aristocratic family . In 1850 he joined the Swedish Navy as a sub-lieutenant . In the following years he waited in vain for promotions, so that he served in the British Royal Navy between 1857 and 1861 . During this time, he also took part in sea operations against pirates in the China Sea .

After his return to the Swedish Navy in 1868 he took part in the 4th Swedish expedition to explore Svalbard , led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , as commander of the mail steamer Sofia . Von Otterøya island in Hinlopen Strait is named after him. He was then promoted to frigate captain and, as such, was aide-de-camp of the then Crown Prince Oskar in 1872 . He held this office after Oskar's coronation as king in 1873.

In 1880 he was appointed director of the Karlskrona naval port . In the following years took place in 1884 was promoted to rear admiral (Commodore), 1892 to Vice Admiral and finally in 1900 the Admiral .

Political career

Naval Minister and MP

In 1874 he was appointed captain of the sea and minister of the navy in the government of Co-Prime Ministers Eduard Carleson (1820-1884) and Oscar Björnstjerna (1819-1905) as the successor to Major General Baron Abraham Leijonhufvud. He also held this office in the following cabinets until the resignation of Prime Minister Louis De Geer's government on April 19, 1880. His older brother Carl Gustav von Otter (1827–1900) succeeded him as minister .

From 1891 to 1899 he was also a member of the First Chamber of the Reichstag . There he represented the Blekinge district before he was a member of the Second Chamber from 1900 to 1905 as a representative of Karlskrona .

Prime Minister from 1900 to 1902

On September 12, 1900, he succeeded Erik Gustaf Boström as Prime Minister. Like his predecessors in office, he was responsible for the reform of the army and the final dissolution of the division of the army, which was established by King Charles XI in 1682 . was introduced and considered obsolete for years. At the same time, a comprehensive tax reform should take place with the army reform. After the end of the legislative period, he resigned as Prime Minister on July 5, 1902 and was replaced by his predecessor, Boström. He himself withdrew completely from political life on his country estate Trantorp near Karlskrona.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. From Otterøya . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).

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