Otto Christoph von Richter

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Otto Christoph von Richter (* December 4, 1678 ; † July 14, 1729 ) was a German-Baltic baron , district administrator and Livonian country marshal .

Life

After his studies Otto Christopher became an assessor at the regional court in Riga in 1702 . He was a member of the Livonian knighthood and was taken hostage to a Russian labor camp in 1710 . After his release in 1711, he became an assessor at the court and was at the same time consistorial assistant . From 1717 to 1723 he was elected to the Livonian district administrator. Also in 1723 he was Councilor and member of the Restitution Commission. He was the owner of the goods Siggund, Schillingshof, Adamshof, Wattram, Kastran (since 1724) and the like. Marzingshof, all of which were in the Livonian district.

Works

From his work, essays and statements appeared:

  • Most dutiful joy, as the most exalted, most powerful and insurmountable Czaar and Kayser Petrus the First etc. etc. etc. Anno 1721 on August 30th styli vet. The most glorious peace in Nystadt with which Cron Sweden had made, and thereupon a very solemn thanksgiving feast was celebrated on October 22nd by the Majestet gantzes Reich, testified in the deepest subservience in the name of their country marshal Otto Christoph Richter. (Riga. 2 Bogg.Fol.)
  • Brief news of the real nature of the estates in Est-Lyfland and on Oesel. Printed in 1723. 23 p. 4 (only in 50 copies)
  • Essay: Of the rights of liv.- u. Ehstländ. Country estates, in dess. North. Misc. XXII.

Origin and family

Otto Christoph came from the German-Baltic aristocratic family " von Richter ", who also served in Sweden. His father was the Livonian district administrator and Swedish colonel Adam von Richter (1630 - 1710), who was married to Christina von Meck from the Sunzel family. Otto Christoph married Catharina Witte von Schwanenberg (1682 - 1730) in 1710. Their son was Christoph III. von Richter (1713 - 1762), who held the office of the Livonian Knighthood Secretary and was a court judge.

Possessions

Adamshof

The Adamshof was also known as Hilleboldshof and can be traced back to the year 1401. The war commissioner Johann Hillebold, who still owned this property in 1682, pledged it to the government councilor Otto Christoph Richter, who combined it with the Siggmund estate and passed it on to his heirs. He was the grandfather of the later privy councilor and governor Christoph Adam von Richter.

literature

  • Friedrich Konrad Gadebusch , Livonian Library in alphabetical order, Volume 3, new edition, Verlag H. v. Hirschheydt, 1777 [4] , p. 31
  • Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, Görlitz 1929 [5]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Restitution = international law: reparation or compensation for damage inflicted on one state by another. Entry on: Google dictionary [1] , accessed March 11, 2019
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich von Recke / Karl Eduard Napiersky , General writers and learned lexicon of the provinces of Livonia , Volume 3, Verlag JF Steffenhagen and sohn., 1831, Original from Princeton University, digitized May 20, 2008 [2] , p. 541 , accessed March 9, 2019
  3. ↑ Heinrich von Hagemeister , materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia , Volume 1, Verlag Frantzen, 1836, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , digitized July 18, 2011 [3] , p. 87, accessed on March 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Otto Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Livonian state politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1678
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1729