Otto Magnus von Buxhoeveden

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Otto Magnus von Buxhoeveden (born August 13, 1770 in Padel , † June 14, 1830 ibid) was the master of Padel and a German-Baltic nobleman on Ösel . As a state politician , he was Oesel country marshal from 1803 to 1813 .

Career

His military career began in the Artillery Cadet Corps in Saint Petersburg . In 1790 he was in the Swedish service, a participant in the Swedish-Russian war and commanded a gunboat of the Skeren fleet. As a prime lieutenant he served in the guards artillery. From 1793 to 1796 he served in Poland and was promoted to captain in the guards artillery in 1797 . He took his leave and with it the end of his military career in 1798 and returned to Ösel. In 1802 he became the owner of the Orriküll, Padel and Feniet estates on the Estonian island of Ösel. He began his political career as a district administrator , from 1808 to 1813 he held the office of Land Marshal von Ösel. In 1813 he took over the position of a resident district administrator and became president of the consistory on Ösel. In later honors he came as an honorary school inspector and head of the church .

Origin and family

Otto Magnus von Buxhoeveden came from the long-established German-Baltic noble family von Buxhoeveden . His parents were the Holstein captain Heinrich Otto von Buxhoeveden (1741–1775), Herr auf Padel (Ösel) and Hedwig Elisabeth von Weymarn (1746–1808). His father's brother was General Friedrich von Buxhoeveden (1750-1811). Otto Magnus married Johanna Christine von Reutern (1778–1837), whose marriage was childless.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Estonian estates: Paadla / Padel [1]
  2. ↑ Swedish Skaren Fleet. In: Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel , Textbook of Statistics of the European States (etc.), Verlag Geogr. Inst., 1822, original from Austrian National Library, digitized Jan. 29, 2015, page 448 [2]
personal data
SURNAME Buxhoeveden, Otto Magnus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Land Marshal
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Padel , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1830
Place of death Padel