Hans von Ostau

Hans von Ostau (born December 2, 1863 in Berlin , † July 3, 1951 in Rietzel ) was a Prussian farmer and politician.

Life

origin

Dretzel Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Hans Heinrich Eugen Erdmann von Ostau came from the indigenous old Prussian nobility . His family originally took the name of Ponnau after the family seat of Ponnau ( Wehlau district in East Prussia). For unknown reasons, the family did not use the name of Ostau until 1535. He was born on December 2, 1863 in Berlin as the second child of the royal Prussian Colonel Eugen Anton Ludwig von Ostau (1828-1901), Lord of Dretzel near Magdeburg and legal knight of the Order of St. John , and Anna von Zastrow (1836-1911).

Career

As was customary in the Prussian nobility at the time, although he was the heir to his father's estate, Dretzel, he initially entered the Prussian military service as an officer candidate in a cavalry regiment, without the intention of making the service his profession. He rose in the military hierarchy up to Rittmeister , in order to then devote himself to agriculture on his father's estate. Since he was also interested in political questions, he applied for a seat as a member of the Prussian state parliament and was also elected. In addition to his work as a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the management of his Dretzel estate, he also became a legal knight of the Order of St. John. After the end of the Second World War he was expropriated without compensation as part of the land reform in the former Soviet occupation zone .

family

On August 27, 1894, he married Auguste von Sobbe (1870-1946), daughter of the royal Prussian general of the infantry Ludwig von Sobbe . The couple had three daughters and one son. Hans von Ostau died on July 3, 1951 in Rietzel in the Jerichow II district in what is now the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels, Volume A XVI, page 401, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1981