Otto von Diest

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Otto von Diest

Otto Karl Erhard Heinrich von Diest (born July 31, 1821 in Posen , † August 29, 1901 in Daber ) was a Prussian administrative officer, publicist and politician .

Life

Childhood, education and career

The Protestant Otto von Diest was the son of the later Prussian lieutenant general of the artillery Heinrich von Diest and his wife Adelheidt, née von Gerhardt. After visiting the Friedrich-Werder MOORISH Gymnasium in Berlin , he studied from 1840 to 1843 at the universities of Berlin and Bonn law . As a result, Otto von Dienst joined the Prussian judicial service. Its local service stations were: 1843 court clerk , May 16, 1848 Supreme Court Assessor and 1 April 1850, Circuit Judge. As such, he was in front of the criminal department of the district court in Frankfurt (Oder). In July 1850 he was transferred to the government in Frankfurt an der Oder for employment as a government assessor.

District Administrator of the Elberfeld District

After von Diest had been responsible for the administration of the Luckau district office since August 1850 , he received the provisional appointment as district administrator of the Elberfeld district on April 16, 1851 . His inauguration took place on May 24, 1851. Well due to his opposition to that of Elberfeld native Prussian Minister of Commerce August von der Heydt was suspended from Diest in February 1859 but then as a Councilor to the Government Opole transferred. In March 1860 he resigned from the civil service without a pension on request. This was preceded by von Diest in 1851 uncovering the system of bribery by means of which the sons of wealthy merchants from Wuppertal withdrew from the Prussian military service. According to his investigations, von der Heydt was also financially involved here. His opinion directed against him ultimately led to his impeachment in 1858/59; During the disciplinary proceedings that followed, he was acquitted, but released without a pension.

Political activity

As a representative of the Conservatives Otto von Diest belonged to the Prussian House of Representatives during the 10th electoral period from 1867 to 1870 . In connection with deliberations on the draft law for the "Hanoverian Provincial Fund", von Diests' fight against corruption , Bismarck , put his connection to the Jewish banker Bleichröder and what he believed to be the predominance of Jewish big business, in which he "posed a serious threat to moral Foundations of the State ”, which finally resulted in a lawsuit in 1877 for insulting Bismarck. Diest was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, his revision, despite the intercession of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and Field Marshal Moltke, was dragged off and finally discarded.

Private

Otto von Diest married Meta von Graß (born June 11, 1826 in Danzig; † December 25, 1909 in Daber), the daughter of a landowner, on August 25, 1848 in Starzin. In 1878 (according to other sources 1861) he acquired the Plantikow estate in Western Pomerania, which was inhabited by the family of his grandson of the same name until it was occupied by Red Army troops in March 1945. A younger brother of Otto von Diest was the Prussian administrative officer Gustav von Diest .

Fonts

  • Money power and socialism. 1874
  • The moral soil in state life. 1876
  • Responses to the attacks by Messrs Lasker, Bennigsen and others a. 1876
  • Three months in prison. Bern 1876
  • Bismarck and Bleichröder. 1897
  • Correction of untruths etc. in the memories of Prince Bismarck and the German legal consciousness. Zurich 1898

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in: Mann, Bernhard (arr.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 106 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 247-249.
  2. ↑ a b NDB 3, 664
personal data
SURNAME Diest, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diest, Otto Karl Erhard Heinrich von; Diest-Daber, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer, district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1901
Place of death But