Otto von Münchhausen (District Administrator, 1802)

Otto Freiherr von Münchhausen (born October 29, 1802 in Donndorf ; † March 15, 1869 in Cölleda ) was the Prussian district administrator of the Eckartsberga district and owner of the manor.

Münchhausen came from the noble family von Münchhausen from the Steinburg line . His father was the judiciary and assessor at the Bremen-Verdenschen court court, Herr auf Steinburg, Bettensen and Tauhardt, Philipp Adolf Friedrich von Münchhausen. The mother was Antoinette Charlotte Henninga von Rumohr . In 1834 he married Auguste Julie Bertha von Münchhausen, the daughter of the gentleman from Remeringhausen and chief forester for the government in Merseburg, Friedrich August Carl von Münchhausen.

Otto von Münchhausen was the master of Steinburg and Bettensen. In 1839 he became the successor to the Prussian district administrator Ludwig von Helmolt . He held this office until his death in 1869. He belonged to the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony and was Deputy Land Marshal there. In 1847 he was a participant in the United State Parliament . From 1849 to 1852 he was a member of the Second Prussian Chamber . In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 225-226.
• Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945 , series A: Prussia, volume 6: Province of Saxony. edit by Thomas Klein, Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 111.