Otto von Dewitz (lawyer)

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Otto Balthasar von Dewitz , actually Otto von Dewitz (born July 19, 1853 in Cölpin , † November 4, 1919 in Neustrelitz ) was a Mecklenburg landowner and administrative lawyer.

Life

Otto von Dewitz was a son of the landowner and MP Friedrich von Dewitz and his wife Thekla, born. von Maltzahn (1819–1902). The future Minister of State Friedrich von Dewitz was his older brother.

Dewitz attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Michaelis Abitur in 1874 and studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig. In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg .

In 1878 he entered the Prussian service as a trainee lawyer in Berlin. In 1881 he switched to the administrative service of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . He became assessor in 1884 and chamber assessor in Neustrelitz in 1885. In 1889 he was promoted to the Chamber of Commerce under appointment as a member of the Grand Ducal Building Department, the Grand Ducal Finance Commission and the State Insurance Office. In part-time he was house marshal at the Neustrelitzer Hof. From 1904 he was chairman of the Grand Ducal Chamber and Forestry College.

Otto von Dewitz inherited the Helpt estate , which he sold to Hans Bodo Freiherr von Bodenhausen in 1911 .

Awards

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 328205168 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. [Supplement to the school program 1907] ( digitized ), University and State Library Düsseldorf , No. 728
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 66 , 786
personal data
SURNAME Dewitz, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dewitz, Otto Balthasar von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg landowner and administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Cölpin
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1919
Place of death Neustrelitz