Otto von Gottberg

Otto von Gottberg as a knight of the Order of St. John

Gustav Ferdinand Carl Heinrich Otto von Gottberg (* December 24, 1831 on Gut Groß Klitten , Bartenstein district , East Prussia ; † October 18, 1913 on Gut Woopen , Bartenstein district) was a landowner , Prussian district administrator and politician.

origin

The coat of arms of the von Gottberg family

Otto came from an old Pomeranian noble family and was the son of the landowner Heinrich von Gottberg (1785-1859) on Groß-Klitten and his wife of baron Ottilie Luise Eleonore von Braun (1792-1868).

family

Gottberg married on August 11, 1857 at Gut Rathshof ( Königsberg district , East Prussia) Olga Tortilovitz von Batocki (born March 11, 1839 at Thierenberg Estate , Fischhausen district , East Prussia; † March 25, 1899 at Groß Klitten), the daughter of the royal Prussian landscape councilor Wilhelm Tortilovitz von Bartocki , landlord of the Rathshof and Fabiansfelde estates (Königsberg district) and Thierenberg and Waldhausen (Fischhausen district), and Ottilie von Talatzko . The couple had several children. His son Heinrich von Gottberg followed him as district administrator in Bartenstein.

Life

Gottberg was Fideikommissherr on the estates Groß Klitten and Woopen (both district Bartenstein), royal Prussian secret government councilor , Prussian district administrator, from 1889 until 1913, a member of the Prussian manor and knight of honor of the Order of St. John .

He began his Prussian civil servant career as a government trainee , but was already at the age of 27 from 1858 to 1893 district administrator of the local district of Bartenstein (also: district of Friedland).

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XVIII, page 186, volume 95 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN 0435-2408
Acta Borussica , Volume 4 / II (1848-1858)
Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1908. Second year, p.367

Individual evidence

↑ Manfred Friedrich: Martitz, Ferdinand von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 309 ( digitized version ).
^ Corps Borussia Bonn ; Kösener corps lists 1960, 9 , 675
^ Biography in Klaus von der Groeben : Administration and Politics 1918–33 using the example of East Prussia . 2nd, expanded edition. Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel 1988, pp. 422–432

personal data
SURNAME	Gottberg, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gottberg, Gustav Ferdinand Carl Heinrich Otto von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landowner, Prussian district administrator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 24, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Groß-Klitten estate, Bartenstein district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1913
Place of death	Gut Woopen, Bartenstein district

[1] Manfred Friedrich: Martitz, Ferdinand von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 309 ( digitized version ).

[2] Corps Borussia Bonn ; Kösener corps lists 1960, 9 , 675

[3] Biography in Klaus von der Groeben : Administration and Politics 1918–33 using the example of East Prussia . 2nd, expanded edition. Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel 1988, pp. 422–432