Jasper von Oertzen (Minister of State)

Jasper Joachim Bernhard Wilhelm von Oertzen , after 1836 also Jasper von Oertzen-Leppin (born November 22, 1801 in Schwerin ; † July 20, 1874 in Grandchamp ) was a German administrative lawyer, politician and diplomat. From 1858 to 1869 he was President of the State Ministry (Prime Minister) of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Live and act

Jasper von Oertzen (No. 329 of the gender census ) came from the Gorow house (today part of Satow ) of the Mecklenburg nobility family von Oertzen and was the second son of the then Schwerin judiciary and later President of the Higher Appeal Court Friedrich von Oertzen and his first wife Charlotte nee. of Mecklenburg . Ludwig Georg von Oertzen was his brother.

He attended the Friedrichwerdersche Gymnasium in Berlin and studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In Göttingen he made friends with Otto von Gerlach . More and more he was shaped by the revival movement , so that he was soon considered a pietist . At the same time he developed very conservative views. In 1822 he joined the Mecklenburg civil service as a canzlei auditor . In 1824 he passed the second exam and was appointed to the chancellery. In 1826 he made a trip to the Netherlands, England and France with Philipp Eduard Huschke . After a brief activity in Güstrow , in 1829 he became a legal advisor at the Rostock office.

The manor house in Leppin

Since 1835 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. In 1836 he was able to purchase Gut Leppin (today part of Lindetal ) with the Vorwerk Cronsberg from the estate of the Dobbertiner monastery captain Victor von Oertzen, thus making the branch of the family, which Gorow had already lost in 1767, fit for the state again. In 1839 he resigned from the Mecklenburg judicial service as a secret councilor and devoted himself to the administration of the estate. In 1842 he acquired the Traumannshof hereditary lease. Around 1850 he had the manor house in Leppin rebuilt and expanded by the Neustrelitz court builder Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel . Soon von Oertzen was sent by the Knights of the Stargard Circle to represent them on the Select Committee , the highest executive body of the Mecklenburg estates. In the disputes within the knighthood about the rights of the newly arrived landowners, he represented conservative views, as well as in the debates of the revolutionary year 1848/49 . Against his signature The possibility of the continued existence of the Mecklenburg Union wrote Friedrich Genzken critical marginal notes .

The Strelitz Grand Duke Georg called him several times for consultations and in 1849 he was sent to Berlin to negotiate with Prussia . In the winter of 1850/51 he represented Mecklenburg-Strelitz at the Dresden ministerial conferences . From 1851 he was envoy of both Mecklenburgs to the Bundestag of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main and received the title of Privy Council .

In spring 1858, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II appointed him President of the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and at the same time entrusted him with the external and internal affairs departments. Associated with this was the title of excellence . Bernhard Vollrath von Bülow was his successor in Frankfurt . Oertzen pursued a policy of preserving Mecklenburg's independence and tried to prevent or at least delay the introduction of universal suffrage in the North German Confederation . In 1866, in the looming war between Prussia and Austria , he advocated the armed neutrality of Mecklenburg. However, the Grand Duke decided to participate in the military on the side of Prussia. The result was that von Oertzen submitted his resignation, which was postponed at the request of the Grand Duke, so that Oertzen had to lead the alliance negotiations with Prussia.

Grave cross for Jasper and Amanda v. Oertzen at the church of Leppin

In 1869 he finally asked for his departure, which he was granted, and went on a journey to the south. He died in Switzerland and was buried in Leppin.

Jasper von Oertzen was married to Amanda born in 1829 . Schuback (1809–1891) from the family of the Hamburg mayor Nicolaus Schuback . Of their 13 children, only six survived their father, including Jasper von Oertzen and Karl Friedrich von Oertzen . Helmuth von Oertzen (* 1834) took over the management of Leppin, which he had converted into a Familienfideikommiss foundation in 1862 . Another son, Hans Georg (* 1845), died in Göttingen in 1865 as a result of a duel injury.

The Jasper-von-Oertzen-Straße in Lindetal-Leppin (through -road of the L33) is named after him.

Awards

• Order of St. John (1846)
• House Order of the Wendish Crown , Grand Cross
• Order of the Red Eagle , 1st class
• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) , 1st class

Fonts

• The possibility of the Mecklenburg Union continuing to exist. Recommended for public examination by J. v. Oertzen on Leppin. Barnewitz, Neustrelitz 1848.
• Do we want to reform or destroy the Mecklenburg constitution? A public vote. Printed and published by Ludolph Hirsch, Teterow 1848.
• Friedrich von Oertzen, President of the Higher Appeal Court. In: North German Correspondent. 1852, ZDB ID 1154740-6 .

literature

• Hellmuth von Oertzen: The life and work of the Minister of State Jasper von Oertzen. A contribution to the history of Mecklenburg, especially its relations with the German Confederation. Railway, Schwerin 1905.

Web links

• Literature about Jasper von Oertzen in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GCF Lisch : Documented history of the family von Oertzen. Volume 4: The Meklenburg Houses and the Older Branches of the Alt-Helpte House Latest History. From around 1700 to the present. Stiller, Schwerin 1886, p. 300. - That Jasper von Oertzen was a son of the Minister of State August von Oertzen (1777-1837), as the author of a family article in the New German Biography claims, is complete nonsense.