Otto von Rantzau

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Count Otto v. Rantzau
Otto von Rantzau with his siblings

Count Otto von Rantzau (born June 1, 1809 in Kiel ; † May 3, 1864 in Dresden ) was a German diplomat in the Danish and Prussian service.

family

Otto Rantzau came from the Rantzauschen house of Oppendorf. His grandfather was Count Christian Emil zu Rantzau († 1777) on Gut Rastorf . He had bought the old Rantzausche Gut Ascheberg three years before his death. The younger son inherited Rastorf. The eldest son Christian Detlev (1772–1812) took over the Oppendorf, Schönhorst and Ascheberg estates in 1797 , but sold Ascheberg as early as 1799 to buy a property near Copenhagen. He only kept that until 1801. When his career plans in Copenhagen did not materialize, he became a curator at Kiel University. His widow later lived in the Seeburg on the Kiel Fjord . The beautiful building, built by the master builder Johann Adam Richter , has belonged to the Rantzau family for a long time. It was only demolished in 1907 to make room for the later dormitory opposite the Kunsthalle Kiel .

Life

The third son of Christian Detlev Karl zu Rantzau , Otto was born in the Seeburg (Kiel) . He studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and joined the Corps Holsatia in 1826 . After completing his studies, he entered the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Denmark . Rantzau was a member of the Holstein assembly of estates . From 1841 to 1846 he was the Danish envoy in St. Petersburg . He resigned from office in protest against Christian VIII's policies . He said goodbye and was elected provost of the Uetersen monastery on June 24, 1847 . He was appointed Royal Danish Chamberlain . During his term of office there was a Schleswig-Holstein survey . Rantzau stood (of course) on the side of the Duchy of Schleswig and the Duchy of Holstein . Criticizing Denmark, he resigned his post in 1857 and lived for some time as a private citizen near Kiel. He joined in 1862 as a walker. Legation councilor in the service of the Crown of Prussia . As Kgl. He came to the court of the Kingdom of Saxony in Dresden .

He was married to Julia Friederike born on August 31, 1844 . Countess zu Rantzau, used. Countess v. Reventlow , Christian zu Rantzau's sister in Rastorf. He died at the age of 55.

Awards

literature

  • Erwin Freytag: List of the provosts and priories at the Cistercian nunnery and later Adlid monastery at Uetersen. Yearbook for the Pinneberg district 1970.
  • Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: The monastery at the Uetersten End. Heydorns, 2008.
  • Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Wachholtz, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Otto von Rantzau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since Ascheberg and Oppendorf belonged together for a long time to an old Rantzauer Fideikommiss, the houses are sometimes blurred.
  2. ^ Message from Christian Stock
  3. ↑ Laying of the foundation stone of the Seeburg dormitory (1909) ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kiel.de
  4. ↑ a b c Friedrich Prüser, Thomas Otto Achelis: The members of the Holsatia 1813–1848 , undated , undated
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 75/54.
  6. ↑ a b Denmark. From Denmark, November 19th . In: JF v.Cotta (ed.): Allgemeine Zeitung München, No. 23 (supplement), November 25, 1861, p. 5372
predecessor Office successor
Conrad Christoph von Ahlefeldt Provost of Uetersen Monastery
1847–1857 		Emil zu Rantzau
personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rantzau, Count Otto von; Rantzau, Otto Carl Josias Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, provost of the monastery of Uetersen
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1864
Place of death Dresden