Otto vom Hagen

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Otto vom Hagen , also Otto von Hagen , (born June 24, 1562 in Quedlinburg ; † 1626 ) was a German mining entrepreneur.

Life

Hagen came from an aristocratic family in Eichsfeld , whose representatives wrote themselves about Hagen , but were mostly referred to as von Hagen . He came from Quedlinburg, where his father worked as the high princely district administrator of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and owned a noble court in which he grew up. At a young age he was interested in mining in the Harz and the Golden Aue. Due to sufficient capital resources, he gradually acquired numerous mines in the southern Harz from 1612, especially in the Heringen and Kelbra offices in Schwarzburg. The lord of the Schwarzburger there was the Elector of Saxony, who also claimed the Bergregal . Otto von Hagen asked him to issue mining regulations for the mines at Kyffhäuser and Rothenburg . The draft of the mining regulations drawn up in the Bergkanzlei in Dresden in 1618 was revised by Martin Weigel in the Freiberg Mining Authority and appeared in print in 1620.

As a mining entrepreneur, he mostly stayed in Berga during this time , which is why his sister inherited the Quedlinburger Hof, while his son Christoph vom Hagen received the noble estate in Berga.

Enormous cost increases led to Otto vom Hagen approaching Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony and offering him his mines for sale. However, Otto von Hagen named such a high price that the Elector declined with thanks. However, he waived the payment of the mountain tithe and insisted on the twentieth share.

family

Otto vom Hagen married Elisabeth von Hoym, who was of the same age and who was widow of Kurt von Schwichelt, in 1589. With her he had their son Christoph vom Hagen, who inherited his father's possessions and after his father's death tried to sell the mines at Kyffhäuser, Berga and Rothenburg to Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony. However, the latter refused again, so that the mines remained in the possession of the Hagen family and were not sold to Duke August von Sachsen-Weißenfels until 1678.

literature

  • Collection of the in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and partly also [...] , 1866, p. 151f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Weigel died immediately after working on the mountain regulations for Otto vom Hagen. It was one of his last official acts in the Saxon mountain town of Freiberg.
  2. ↑ Bergordnung of June 9, 1620 (publication)
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Otto from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1562
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH 1626