Otto von Cossel (District Administrator)
Otto Paschen von Cossel (born June 22, 1845 in Rendsburg , † September 22, 1915 in Eberswalde ) was a Prussian district administrator .
Life
He came from the Mecklenburg noble family of Cossel and was the son of the royal Danish chamberlain and top civil servant Johann Detloff of Cossel (1805-1891) from the home Jersbek and Karoline Steman (1810-1885) from the Danish nobility .
Cossel first studied law at the University of Leipzig and became active in the Corps Misnia Leipzig in 1865 . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and on November 11, 1865 to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Later he was a royal Prussian chamberlain and privy councilor .
On August 30, 1876, Cossel was initially commissioned as a provisional government assessor by the State Ministry for the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg from Berlin with the position of district administrator for the district of Geldern in the Rhine province . From August 17, 1877 to October 10, 1890 he was officially the Prussian district administrator in Geldern. On November 6, 1890, he was entrusted with the provisional administration of the Jüterbog district in Brandenburg and officially transferred to Jüterbog as district administrator on April 20, 1891 .
Cossel married civilly on January 18, ecclesiastically on January 21, 1882 in Stuttgart Sophie Countess von Zeppelin-Aschhausen (born October 18, 1856 in Stuttgart, † November 18, 1945 in Dobritz , district of Zerbst ), the daughter of the royal Württemberg secret legation councilor Maximilian Graf von Zeppelin-Aschhausen (1824–1867), lecturer at the Württemberg Foreign Ministry, and Marie Freiin von Maucler (1837–1861). From this marriage came the genealogist of the same name Otto von Cossel (1883–1967), the councilor Hans von Cossel (1886–1975) and the officer of the Imperial Air Force , observation pilot and Colonel Maximilian von Cossel (1897–1967).
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses, vol. XVII, vol. 89 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1986, p. 70.
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Gender Book , Vol. 23, p. 366
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 90 , 194
- ^ The register of Heidelberg University , Vol. 6, 1907, p. 549 ( excerpt )
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945: Landkreis Geldern
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cossel, Otto von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Paschen von Cossel, Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian district administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1915 |
| Place of death | Eberswalde |