Otto von Preen
Otto von Preen (born December 3, 1579 in Wehnendorf, today Klein Wehnendorf , † October 21, 1634 in Güstrow ) was a German lawyer and court official .
Life
Preen is the son of Heinrich von Preen and his wife Catharina Behr .
Preen enjoyed his first education from a private tutor and court master. In August 1595 he enrolled at the University of Rostock , but moved to Wittenberg on September 27, 1595 . Here he broke off his studies and traveled to Italy at the end of the same year. He spent the next three years at the University of Padua , the University of Siena and over a year in the Kingdom of Naples . In Padua Preen was elected as a student consiliarius of the German nation .
Preen's return to Germany happened around 1600.
On September 1, 1608 Preen married Dorothea von Bülow .
In 1612, Duke Johann Albrecht II of Mecklenburg-Güstrow appointed him a councilor and appointed him governor of Güstrow, Schwaan and Sternberg. About seven years later, Preen was promoted to Privy Council and Director of the State .
Preen's wife died on September 30, 1627.
At the end of May of the following year, Preen risked the confiscation of his goods and followed his sovereign into exile in Anhalt and later on to Lübeck . That is why Otto von Preen was officially ostracized by the emperor.
It is very likely that Preen was accepted into the Fruit Bringing Society on June 26, 1628 by Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Koethen, together with Duke Johann Albrecht II and his personal physician Angelo Sala . The prince gave Preen the company name of the hidden and the motto in cloudy weather . As an emblem he was the Eberwurzel < Carlina acaulis L. > allotted. Preen's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no.159.
On January 31, 1630 he married August Adelheid von Münchow for the second time .
The political cooperation between Duke Johann Albrecht II and his brother Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with King Gustav Adolf of Sweden made it possible for Otto Preen to return to Güstrow in 1631 . A short time later he came into possession of his goods again.
On October 31, 1634 Otto von Preen died unexpectedly of a stroke in Güstrow.
Of his children, Adolf Friedrich von Preen became superintendent in Neubrandenburg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Otto von Preen's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
literature
- Joachim von Pritzbuer : Mecklenburg's noble families. Neustrelitz: sn 1894
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Preen, Otto von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and court official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1579 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Wehnendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1634 |
| Place of death | Guestrow |