Otto Grote to look

The imperial baron Otto Grote zu Schauen (* 25 December 1636 ^July / 4 January  1637 ^greg. In Sonderburg (Schleswig) ; † 5 September ^July / 15 September  1693 ^greg. In Hamburg ) was a statesman from Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Career

Otto Grote (1636–1693), Imperial Baron zu Schauen, came from the Lüneburg noble family Grote . After the Thirty Years War he studied at the University of Helmstedt and the University of Leiden from 1653 to 1656 and then went on trips.

From 1665 Grote became a secret councilor and chamber president under Duke Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg . He also exercised these functions for the younger brother and successor of Johann Friedrich, the later Elector of "Kurhannover" , Ernst August . Grote was de facto First Minister and, together with the Brunswick ambassador at the imperial court in Vienna, Johann Christoph von Limbach, after numerous diplomatic missions, played a decisive role in acquiring the 9th  electoral dignity for the House of Hanover in 1692.

Shortly before, in 1689, he succeeded in acquiring the imperial rule of Schauen in the northern Harz region from the princes of Waldeck , a 200-souls rule that was primarily associated with costs, but with whose possession the acquisition of the imperial baron-dignity of Grote zu Blick was also connected .

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From the provenance of Otto Grote these dates to 2010 when Christie's auctioned engraving of the bodies procession for the royal crypt in the April 21, 1680 Leineschloss buried in Hannover Herzog Johann Friedrich , whose documentation of the polymath Leibniz specifically the engraver Johann Georg Lange after Hanover took;
from: IIusta Funebria Serenissimo Principi Joanni Friderico Brunsvicensium Et Luneburge ... , Rinteln: Gottfried Kaspar Wächter, 1685; with further ownership notices from the University of Helmstedt and the Herzog August Library

Otto Grote died in the middle of the negotiations with Denmark over Saxony-Lauenburg before the Hamburg settlement was concluded . Months after his death, the baron was buried in Hanover's court church on December 16, 1693 until he was later transferred to the family's hereditary burial .

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote a distich on the death of Grote to look.

literature

• Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Grote, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 758-762.
• Georg Schnath:  Great to look, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 163 ( digitized version ).
• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 4, p. 201.
• Wilhelm Rothert, A. Rothert, M. Peters (eds.): Hannoversche Biographie , Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut, 1646-1815, 1916, pp. 141-152.
• Klaus Mlynek : Great to look, Otto Reichsfrhr. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 238.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht Klose / Klaus-Peter Rueß: The grave inscriptions on the ambassador's cemetery in Regensburg. Texts, translations, biographies, historical notes . In: Stadtarchiv Regensburg (ed.): Regensburger studies . tape 22 . Regensburg City Archives, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-943222-13-5 , p. 58-61 .
2. ^ Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon : [1] .