Otto von Dewitz (District Administrator)

Otto von Dewitz (1904)

Otto Carl Hermann August von Dewitz (born October 16, 1850 in Zachow , Regenwalde district , † April 12, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German officer, administrative lawyer, district administrator and member of parliament.

Life

In 1870 he joined the Prussian army , from which he resigned as first lieutenant in 1878 . He studied law at the University of Bonn and entered the Prussian administrative service in 1880, where he first worked for the government in Cologne . In 1881 he was entrusted with the administration of the district office of Saarlouis and in 1882 appointed district administrator for the Prüm district . From 1886 to 1892 he worked as district administrator for the Oldenburg district in Holstein .

He was the owner of the Zankeuz estates in West Prussia , Groß-Ziethen in Brandenburg and Alt-Pleen in Pomerania. In 1892 he resigned from the civil service in order to devote himself to the administration of his estate.

As a member of the Free Conservative Party , he represented the 18th electoral district in Schleswig-Holstein (Oldenburg) in the Prussian House of Representatives from 1903 . He was the managing director of the party in Berlin.

Awards

• Red Eagle Order 4th class
• Right knight of the Order of St. John

literature

• August Ludwig Degener: Who is it? 3rd edition, Leipzig: Degener 1908, p. 260
• A. Plate: Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. Edition for the 20th legislative period. Berlin 1904, p. 302

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Romeyk: The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 . Düsseldorf 1994, p. 410.