Otto V. (Schaumburg)

Otto V. von Schaumburg , according to another count also Otto VI. (* March 1, 1614 ; † November 14, 1640 in Bückeburg ), was the last Count of Holstein-Pinneberg and Schauenburg from the Schaumburg line .

Life

Otto was the son of Georg Hermann von Schauenburg and Gemen (* April 12, 1577; † December 21, 1616) and Elisabeth zur Lippe (* July 9, 1592; † June 16, 1646). After the early death of the father, his brother Hermann (born September 15, 1575, † December 5, 1634) took over the guardianship. Since 1631 Otto spent two years at the University of Bourges and Paris and two in the Netherlands for training . As early as 1629 he was accepted into the Fruitful Society under the name of "Values" .

After the death of his cousin Jobst Hermann on November 5, 1635, he was heir to the County of Holstein-Pinneberg and the last descendant of the house of Schauenburg in a direct male line. His reign fell during the Thirty Years' War , which particularly affected his possessions south of the Elbe. Since he was still a minor , he was initially under the guardianship of Ludwig von Anhalt-Koethen , his mother's brother-in-law, and Otto von Lippe-Brake , an uncle on his mother's side. In the succession dispute over the rule of Gemen he was defeated by the abbess Agnes von Limburg-Stirum .

In the autumn of 1636 his Bückeburg residence was occupied and looted. Otto fled to Gemen from famine and plague . In the spring of 1637 he was kidnapped by imperial troops to Lemgo and only released against payment of a ransom. In 1637 Otto took over the government himself. He was a Calvinist ; the territories ruled by him remained Lutheran. Otto tried to repair the war damage to the Rinteln University , which was only founded in 1619 .

He died two weeks after attending a banquet in Hildesheim with the Swedish general Johan Banér , who had made Bückeburg his headquarters. He was buried on July 6, 1642 together with his predecessor, Jobst Hermann, in the princely mausoleum in Stadthagen .

Division of inheritance

The county Holstein-Pinneberg fell after long inheritance disputes about two-thirds as a rule Pinneberg to Christian IV. Of Denmark and a thirds of Duke Frederick III. von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , the Stammgrafschaft Schaumburg partly to his mother's brother, Count Philipp zur Lippe , and partly to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . The rule of Gemen went to the Counts of Limburg-Styrum . Otto's mother was paid 145,000 Reichstalers.

literature

• Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen, Elke Imberger, Dieter Lohmeier , Ingwer Momsen (ed.): The princes of the country. Dukes and Counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02606-5 .
• EK: The last Count of Holstein-Schauenburg. In: Friedrich Bülau : Secret stories and enigmatic people. Collection of hidden or forgotten oddities. Volume 9. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, pp. 458-460.
• Franz Carl Theodor Piderit (main preacher of the Reformed community in Rinteln): History of the county of Schaumburg and the most important places in it. Albrecht Osterwald, Rinteln 1831, pp. 127–130 .
• Religious constitution of the Grafschaft Schaumburg, in particular the Graeflich-Lippischen Part. From Count Otto VI. except for the Peace of Westphalia. In: Johann Daniel Reiche: Documentary justification of the imploration for restitutione in Integrum handed over by Graeflich-Schaumburg-Lippischer guardianship at the Imperial Imperial Chamber Court against the at this highest Imperial Court in the matter of Dr. Just Friedrich Froriep and Henrich Ernst Rauschenbusch opposed the Graeflich-Schaumburg-Lippische Guardianship, whose subsequent government also secular consistorial councilors [...] gained knowledge in 1792. Althaus, Bückeburg 1793, p. 8 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge bei der Wieden: Schaumburgische Genealogie. Schaumburger Studies 14. Melle 1999, p. 161
2. ↑ To the banquet in detail: Blazek, Matthias: Das Banersche Trinkgelage of October 28, 1640 and its consequences , in: Gerstenberg, Bruno (ed.); Abromeit, Sven: Hildesheim Calendar 2013 - Yearbook for History and Culture , pp. 149–151.
3. ^ At the Wieden, Helge: Schaumburgische Genealogie. Family tables of the Counts of Holstein and Schaumburg, also Dukes of Schleswig, until their extinction in 1640 , 2nd edition, Melle Knoth 1999, p. 160 books.google .

predecessor	Office	successor
Jobst Hermann	Count of Schauenburg and Holstein 1635–1640	Christian IV of Denmark and Frederick III. from Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf in Holstein-Pinneberg Philipp zur Lippe in Schaumburg-Lippe