Friedrich Wilhelm Otte

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Relief on the residential building

Friedrich Wilhelm Otte (* July 5, 1715 in Eckernförde ; † August 24, 1766 there ) was an important Eckernförder merchant , shipowner , entrepreneur , politician and diplomat .

Act

Friedrich Wilhelm Otte owed his wealth not only to the success of his father Christian Otte's shipping company , but also to his own entrepreneurial spirit. In the 1760s, his company already owned about half the tonnage of Eckernförde, plus the ships of other closely related shipowners. In addition to his economic power, he managed to exercise considerable political influence. He became mayor of Eckernförde and a chancellery. On behalf of the Danish Minister Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , he also worked as a diplomat during the unsuccessful peace efforts in 1761/62.

He was the main manager of the Otteschen companies in Eckernförde. In seafaring, he expanded trade with Portugal . In the entrepreneurial area, his importance lies in the establishment of the Eckernförde faience factory , together with his brother Johann Nikolaus Otte (1714–1780). Some faience works are now considered valuable museum pieces, for example a faience tea caddy in the Eckernförde Museum . He also ran a woolen goods factory, dyeing, thread and linen production, also in Schleswig , where his older brother, the local mayor Georg Christian Otte, worked for him. Friedrich Wilhelm Otte owned the Bienebek estate (at the time: Bienebeck ).

His nephew, the royal court agent and real councilor Christian Bruyn , was his successor in the Eckernförde Otteschen companies. The importance of Friedrich Wilhelm Otte's inception can be judged from the fact that the factory was even visited by the Danish king in 1767 the king Christian VII. 18 "Ottischen cannon" and of cannons on the "Ottischen like hunting on the water" [pleasure yacht ] when he toured the Ottesche faience factory.

As the successor to his older brother Georg Christian Otte, Friedrich Wilhelm Otte was in charge of the administration of the Otteschen Poor Foundation in Eckernförde.

family

His first marriage was on August 6, 1748 with Dorothea Charlotte von Reventlow († November 5, 1763 in Eckernförde), daughter of Colonel Otto Heinrich von Reventlow. In his second marriage he married Edel Augusta von Türkenstein in 1765 († December 15, 1799 in Eckernförde). From his first marriage he had nine children. The husband of the eldest daughter Margaretha Dorothea (1749–1767), Niels Ryberg (1725–1804) in Copenhagen , director of the Asian Company and the Royal Danish West Indian Trading Company , was also involved in the slave trade . The daughter Louise Christiane (1753–1786) was married to Johann Friedrich Ackermann . Otte was the great-grandfather of Karl von Moltke through another daughter . A portrait of his daughter Sophia Charlotte from 1767 is exhibited in the Museum Eckernförde.

literature

  • Jann M. Witt: Seafaring in transition using the example of the Otte shipping company in Eckernförde , in: Yearbook Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde eV , 58th year 2000, pp. 27–50
  • Jann M. Witt, "Master next God?" The Northern European merchant shipping captain from the 17th to the 19th century , dissertation, Univ. Kiel 1999
  • Lars Henningsen: Provinsmatadorer fra 1700 - Arene, Reder-, købmans- and fabrikantfamilien Otte i Ekernførde i økonomi and politics 1700 - 1770 , Eckernförde 1985 (Rosenkilde og Bagger) with a final summary in German
  • Lars N. Henningsen: Otte, Friedrich Wilhelm (1715–1766) . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck 9th Vol., 262–265
  • Geert-Herbert Lüders: The Otte'sche Armenstiftung in Eckernförde since its foundation in 1739 , in: Yearbook of the home community of the Eckernförde district , 27th year 1969
  • Hans Fontenay de Wobeser: Eckernförde's heyday and the Otte family , 1920

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tea caddy. In: The special museum piece. Museum Eckernförde, accessed on September 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jens Kirchhoff: Lineup Otte (Otto) from Eckernförde. (PDF) In: North German Genealogies. December 15, 2013, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  3. ^ Peder Wichmann (1706–1769): Portrait of Sophia Charlotte Otte, 1767. In: The special museum piece. Museum Eckernförde, accessed on September 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Otte, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Eckernförder merchant, shipowner, entrepreneur, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1766
Place of death Eckernförde