Otto Johann von Grothusen

Otto Johann von Grothusen (* 1627 ; † June 22, 1697 in Altona ) was a German soldier in the Swedish service, most recently as Lieutenant General and Commander of Altona .

Life

Otto Johann von Grothusen was a lieutenant general, in Swedish service since 1655, heir to Turow in Pomerania and Stürzenhof in Livonia . As governor of the city of Wismar (1683–1690), which was then part of Sweden , he was promoted to the Swedish baron status as Freiherr von Turow on December 24, 1687 and introduced in 1689 to the baron class of the Swedish knighthood (No. 80). The Grothusenkoog in Schleswig-Holstein is named after him. In January 1693, land in the southwest of the Eiderstedt peninsula was transferred to Lieutenant General Otto Johann Freiherr von Grothusen for loyal service to Duke Christian Albrecht von Holstein-Gottorf. In order to be able to dike this land, Grothusen looked for several financially strong partners, including the dike count and stallion Ove Lorenz from Welt , who inherited the Koog in 1697.

He was married to Margaretha von Behr from the Edwahlen family. Major general and diplomat Christian Albrecht von Grothusen was his son.

literature

Otto Johann von Grothusen . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 406 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Historic Eiderstedt: The Köge . Heimatbund Eiderstedt
Grothusenkoog . Office Eiderstedt

Individual evidence

↑ Brief history of the Hamburg military. (Continued), in: Hamburg and Altona. A magazine on the history of time, customs and tastes. Volumes 4–5, Nestler, 1806, p. 44 ff., Here p. 49.
↑ Maren Lorenz : The Wheel of Violence: Military and Civilian Population in Northern Germany after the Thirty Years' War (1650-1700). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, p. 65.

personal data
SURNAME	Grothusen, Otto Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German soldier in the Swedish service, most recently as Lieutenant General and Commander of Altona
DATE OF BIRTH	1627
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 1697
Place of death	Altona

[1] Brief history of the Hamburg military. (Continued), in: Hamburg and Altona. A magazine on the history of time, customs and tastes. Volumes 4–5, Nestler, 1806, p. 44 ff., Here p. 49.

[2] Maren Lorenz : The Wheel of Violence: Military and Civilian Population in Northern Germany after the Thirty Years' War (1650-1700). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, p. 65.