Otto von Pestel

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Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Carl Ernst Friedrich von Pestel (* 26. October 1848 at Gut Bruche, district Melle , Lower Saxony , † 1. July 1919 ibid) was District Administrator of the rural district Melle and Prussian politician.

family

He came from a Lower Saxon noble family from Wolfenbüttel (1551) and was the son of the royal of Great Britain and Hanover district administrator and Governing Council in Bentheim Dr. jur. Conrad von Pestel (1766–1834), landlord of Bruche and Krietenstein near Melle , and the Melusine baroness von Hammerstein-Gesmold (1788–1856).

1870 studies in Bonn, there member of the Corps Hansea . Pestel married Auguste Freiin von Frydag (born March 13, 1852 at Gut Buddenberg; † October 1, 1917 at Gut Bruche), the daughter of the landowner August Freiherr von, on May 10, 1895 at Gut Buddenberg near rings ( Grafschaft Bentheim ) Frydag , landlord on Buddenberg, and Mathilde Freiin von Haus . In his second marriage, he married on November 19, 1918 at Gut Bruche Elisabeth Freiin von Hammerstein-Gesmold (born August 10, 1892 in Celle ; † June 7, 1957 at Gut Bruche), the daughter of the landscape councilor Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Gesmold , Fideikommissherr to Gut Gesmold and Erbdrost von Grönenberg near Melle, and Gertrud von Mandelsloh . After the death of her husband, Elisabeth von Pestel married his successor in the office of District Administrator Ludwig von Bar .

Life

Pestel was landlord on Bruche and Krietenstein and district administrator of the district of Melle . He was a royal Prussian chamberlain , legal knight of the Order of St. John and a member of the Prussian manor house . In addition, he represented the constituency of Melle in the Hanoverian provincial parliament from 1891 to 1919 . In 1908 he was chairman of the provincial committee, from 1909 to 1919 chairman of the provincial parliament. on September 1, 1919, Franz Reinhard succeeded him in the state parliament. In 1912 he was appointed to the Prussian mansion for life .

His grave can be found in the municipal cemetery in Melle-Mitte.

Honors

In Melle a street, the Pestelstraße and a lookout tower, the Ottoshöhe, were named after Otto von Pestel .

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume V, page 292, volume 26 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1961, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Wilhelm Knigge: As a reminder: District Administrator and Chamberlain Otto von Pestel , in: Heimatjahrbuch 1995, page 244f., Heimatbund Osnabrücker Land eV (Hrsg.), Osnabrück 1995
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 272-273.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11/190
  2. ↑ Ottoshöhe and Pestelstrasse. Memories of District Administrator Otto von Pestel . In: Meller Kreisblatt , August 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pestel, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pestel, Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Carl Ernst Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Bruche, Melle district , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1919
Place of death Gut Bruche, Melle district , Lower Saxony