Otto von Dewitz (politician)

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Otto von Dewitz, engraving by Heinrich Senefelder (1840)

Otto von Dewitz (born December 18, 1780 in Neustrelitz ; † September 5, 1864 there ; full name: Otto Ludwig Christoph von Dewitz ) was a German politician and minister in Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Life

Otto von Dewitz (No. 475 of the gender census ) was the son of the ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitzschen Privy Councilor and Oberhofmarschall Bodo (Christoph) Balthasar von Dewitz (1734–1792) and Auguste von Brauchitsch (1753–1820). As early as 1794, he was accepted into the Order of St. John as a knight of the Brandenburg Ballot. He attended the Pädagogium Halle and then studied law at the University of Erlangen , where he joined the Berlin Society (Erlangen) in 1799 . When enrolling in Erlangen, he named the landscape councilor of Hagen zu Reselkow as guardian.

After completing his studies, he became a chamberlain and auditor at the court of Duke Karl II from 1803 to 1806. His career in the administrative service of the part of the (great) duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was rapid: Chamberlain in 1806, councilor in 1811, councilor in 1827. In 1827 Otto von Dewitz (alongside August von Oertzen ) became the real minister of state and took part in the government in Neustrelitz. As commissioner, he represented his sovereign Grand Duke Georg in the Mecklenburg state parliaments in Malchin and Sternberg and signed the marriage contract between Duchess Caroline zu Mecklenburg and the Danish Crown Prince Frederik for him in May 1841 . During his reign, the highways were built in both parts of the duchy. In 1848 he was ousted from office under the pressure of the revolution in Mecklenburg (1848) . From then on he took on diplomatic tasks for Grand Duke Georg.

Otto von Dewitz was married to Henriette von Wedel adH Silligsdorf (1784–1868) since 1804 . The couple had seven children, five of whom reached adulthood. Of his sons, Gustav von Dewitz (1807–1835) became a royal Prussian government assessor in Frankfurt / Oder, Karl von Dewitz (1814–1853) was a grand ducal mecklenburg-strelitz chamberlain and chamber assessor and Georg von Dewitz (1817–1893) was a royal Prussian higher appellate judge. The daughter Auguste von Dewitz, married von Maltzahn (* 1812), married the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz Chamberlain and Minister of State Wilhelm von Bernstorff († 1861) after she was court lady of the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Nothing is known of a private estate from Otto von Dewitz. His political legacy is in the Schwerin State Main Archive .

Honors

literature

  • Ludwig Wegner: Family history of von Dewitz , Vol. 1 [no more published]. Naugard, 1868, pp. 472-474
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Order of St. John Sheet: official monthly journal of the Balley Brandenburg. 41 (1900), p. 127 (No. 1038)
  2. ^ Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The Berlin or Märkische Gesellschaft in Erlangen . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 25 (1980), pp. 129–140 (p. 134) with a reference to an entry in the register of Wilhelm Blumenhagen .
  3. Date of appointment unknown. First mentioned as real minister of state in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state calendar in 1828 (= reporting year 1827).
  4. Contrary to Grewolls, he was not a member of the Basedow constituency in 1848; Rather, the deputy was the Chief Captain Otto Ernst von Dewitz auf Krumbeck (1788-1858)
  5. with Ludwig von Lützow , overview of the changes that occurred in 1841 in the business circles of the General Order Commission. Berlin 1842, p. 23