Otto von Hentig

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Otto von Hentig
Grave of Otto von Hentig in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof in Stahnsdorf

Philipp Hermann Otto von Hentig (born August 15, 1852 in Luckenwalde , † January 24, 1934 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German lawyer and politician .

origin

His parents were the Protestant postmaster Eduard Gottfried Hentig (1803–1872) and his wife Eleonore Voigt (1820–1887).

Life

After graduating from the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin, he volunteered in the war against France in 1870 . He studied law in Berlin , Heidelberg and Jena , joined the office of Bismarck's lawyer Carl-Friedrich Drews as an assessor in 1879 and took over after his death. The asset management of royal houses and the legal representation of inventors ( Edison , Siemens , Linde , brothers Mannesmann ) made him one of the leading lawyers in the 1880s and 1890s. From 1893 to 1898, Hentig managed the princely Fürstenberg assets of the Donaueschingen line.

Due to his relationship with Ernst II zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , he was appointed Minister of State in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha in 1900. His official seat was the Winter Palace in Gotha . He headed the ministerial department responsible for the Gotha part of the duchy and was responsible for economic, judicial and commercial policy as well as the implementation of the imperial laws. In 1905 he resigned from this office.

Since then, Hentig has been active in economic and social policy in industrial and banking groups, including Siemens , the Schantung Railway and the Schantung Mining Company , which he was instrumental in founding, as well as the Central Office for Youth Welfare and the Association for Germanism Abroad .

In 1901, Hentig was raised to the hereditary nobility by being awarded the Grand Cross of the Saxon-Ernestine House Order .

In 1891, Hentig was a co-founder and then a member of the board of the “Bauvereinigung Eigenhaus” in Berlin-Karlshorst and thus one of the founding fathers of the Karlshorst colony . A street in Berlin-Karlshorst is therefore named after him.

family

He married Maria Dankberg (1866–1943) in Berlin in 1885 , a daughter of the master potter and factory owner Gustav Dankberg (1831–1866). The couple had three sons and three daughters, including:

literature

Web links

  • Article in Karlshorster , No. 15, June 2007, p. 4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hentigstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )


personal data
SURNAME Hentig, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hentig, Philipp Hermann Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician of the imperial era
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckenwalde , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1934
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg , Germany