Otto von Richter (politician)

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Otto Magnus Johann von Richter (born September 7, 1755 , † December 15, 1826 in Dorpat ) was a Livonian state politician.

Life

family

Otto was a member of the Baltic noble family von Richter . His parents were Christoph (III.) Von Richter, the Livonian knighthood secretary and court judge, and heir to Siggund and Adamshof (1713–1762) and Hedwig Beata von Richter ad H. Neuenhof in Estonia . In 1788 he married Anna Auguste Charlotte von Engelhardt (1770–1823), daughter of the Estonian knight governor Gustav Friedrich von Engelhardt (1732–1798). The marriage resulted in two sons:

career

In his youth Otto was in the military service of the Electorate of Saxony , where he was promoted to officer until 1769. In 1789 he was Assessor of the Estonian Higher Regional Court and in 1792 District Marshal in Livonia. From 1797 to 1826 he was the Livonian district administrator and in 1803 and 1822 to 1824 deputy country marshal . From 1806 he was also head of the church and from 1819 president of the commission for drafting the farmers' ordinance. In 1820 he was a co-founder and from 1824 to 1826 chief director of the Livonian aristocratic property loan association.

He was the owner of the Livonian estates Kusthof and Waimel.

literature

  • Georg von Krusenstjern : The land marshals and district administrators of the Livonian and the Öselschen knighthood in portraits. Hamburg 1963. p. 155 (with portrait)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods , part 1, 1: Livland, Görlitz 1929, p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Otto Magnus Johann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Livonian state politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1755
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1826
Place of death Dorpat