Otto von Mengden

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Otto von Mengden , Baron von Altenwoga since 1653 , (* 1596 ; † February 16, July / February 26,  1681 greg. ) Was a Livonian state politician.

Life

Origin and family

Otto was a member of the Livonian noble family Mengden . His parents were the heir to Kussen and Maikendorf Jürgen von Mengden († 1622) and Magdalene, née von Vietinghoff , widowed Uexküll .

His first marriage was in 1624 with Gertrud von Rosen (1589-1651). In his second marriage in 1653 he married Johanna Jakobina Freiin Khevenhüller , a daughter of the Swedish Imperial Council and General Paul Khevenhüller (1593–1655). Already at an advanced age, he entered the state of marriage for a third time in 1668 with Helena Freiin von Ungern-Sternberg .

His only child was the son Gustav von Mengden (1625–1688), who was a Swedish major general and also a Livonian national politician.

On July 12, 1653 Otto was from Mengden as Freiherr von Altenwoga in the Swedish baron lifted .

Career

Mengden inherited the paternal family estate Kussen and took over the Maikendorf and Roperbeck estates in the division of the estate . But he soon ceded the latter to his brother. In 1625 he was awarded by the King Ogershof with Eken, which were united in 1653 to form the Freiherrschaft Altenwoga. His first wife also brought him Idsel , Lappier and Sinohlen . Finally, in 1664 he also bought Helreichshof and in 1667 Lubey, which gave him a very extensive and adequate estate and was one of the wealthiest men in Livonia of his time.

Since 1629 he was a member of the Commissorial Court, which was supposed to regulate the property situation after the Swedish conquest. Also in 1629, the knighthood sent him to the court in Stockholm as a diplomat, where he had their privileges successfully confirmed on May 18, 1629. In 1634 he took part in the funeral ceremonies of the king in Stockholm. On the occasion, he negotiated various issues in the Reichstag as a delegate of the knighthood, although he was not successful in all points. The confirmation of privileges from 1629 was recognized and from then on the knighthood was allowed to elect a knighthood captain to head the state parliaments .

As colonel of the nobility flag, he was able to recapture Sunzel from the Poles in 1636 . Around this time he was also a district judge in Kokenhusen .

Mengden is considered to be the founder of the Knighthood Archives, as he had relevant documents collected from his own resources by spending 2000 thalers. At the beginning of 1643 the knighthood elected him to the Livonian land marshal and in the autumn of the same year to the district administrator . As leader of a delegation of the knighthood to Stockholm, he obtained the establishment of a provincial council, later called the provincial college, which remained the executive organ of Livonian self-government until 1920. In 1648 he negotiated again successfully in Stockholm the doubling of the district administrators and the tenure of the land marshal to three years.

As a state politician, diplomat and leader of the knighthood, he designed essential and sustainable things for his homeland. Mengden was buried in the Riga Cathedral.

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  1. ↑ Anders Anton von Stiernman, Johan Adam Rehbinder, Carl Fredric Rothlieb and Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd: Matrikel öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och adel. Stockholm 1754, p. 182 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Mengden, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Livonian state politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1596
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1681