Otto Moritz von Richter
Otto Moritz Arthur von Richter (born November 17, 1824 in Dorpat , † November 12, 1892 in Riga ) was a Livonian state politician, district administrator and member of the Russian State Council .
Life
Otto Moritz received his school education in the Krümmerschen Anstalten zu Werro and passed his school leaving examination . At the University of Dorpat he took a diploma course from 1842 to 43 and from 1844 to 1845 he studied law in Berlin and Heidelberg . After his legal training he became an adjunct at the regulatory court in 1846 , then from 1849 district court assessor . From 1850 he was parish judge and from 1852 to 1860 director of the Estonian district administration and the peasant pension bank and district judge in Dorpat. He took over the office of Secretary of the Livonian Knighthood in Riga in 1860 and was elected to the Livonian District Administrator for the periods 1862 to 1869 and 1870 to 1892. From 1882 to 1887 he was the " Resident District Administrator " based in Riga, at the same time he was president of the school board at the state high school in Birkenruh near Wenden until 1885 . Eventually he was appointed chamberlain and was a member of the Russian State Council.
Personality traits
Otto Moritz was a talented speaker who stood out particularly as a realpolitician. In the 1860s he was considered a liberal state politician, but later developed as a leader of the conservatives and opposed the state constitutional reforms. He advocated the founding of the statistical office of the Livonian Knighthood and failed in 1869 because of the construction of a railway connection between Livonia and Russia. Between 1877 and 1878 he supported the Livonian property tax reform.
Origin and family
Otto Moritz von Richter came from the German-Baltic noble family von Richter . His parents were Eduard von Richter (* 1816, † 1900 in Bonn ) and Anna von Maydell . In 1846 he married the baroness Elise Choultz von Ascheraden (1827-1908), they had no descendants.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Otto Moritz Arthur von Richter. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ The well-known Krümmersche establishment in Werro. In: Friedrich Georg von Bunge , Das Inland. A weekly for Liv, Esth and Curland history, geography, statistics and literature , Volume 4, Verlag Kluge, 1839, original from the Austrian National Library , digitized February 4, 2014 (Correspondenznachrichten, Repertorium der Tageschronik zbd Miscellen, Werro, March 3 May) [1] p. 315
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| SURNAME | Richter, Otto Moritz von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Otto Moritz Arthur von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Livonian state politician, district administrator and member of the Russian State Council |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorpat |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1892 |
| Place of death | Riga |