Otto von Voss

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Otto von Voss
The coat of arms of the Count von Voss Buch on the Schlosskirche in Berlin Buch

Otto Carl Friedrich von Voss (born June 8, 1755 in Berlin ; † January 30, 1823 there ) was secret minister of state and cathedral dean in the Kingdom of Prussia .

origin

He comes from the Mecklenburg noble family von Voss . His parents were Friedrich Christoph Hieronymus von Voss (born November 13, 1724; † October 3, 1784), heir to Flotow and Trollenhagen , and his first wife Amalia Ottilie von Viereck (1736–1767). His sister Julie von Voss , Countess von Ingenheim (1766–1789), was court lady , mistress and later wife of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II. His brothers were Albrecht Leopold, Royal Prussian Major (* 1759 - 31 May 1793) and Colonel Ferdinant Georg Wilhelm Ernst.

Life

After his father's death (1784) he took over from Buch , Karow and Birkholz as majorate . At the same time he bought General von Bülow's father-owned Havelberg Dompropstei . The cathedral of Havelberg was now on his favorite holiday. In 1786 he returned to the civil service as President of the Kurmärkischen War and Domain Chamber and in 1789 as Minister of State in the General Directorate with the Department Neumark, Neuchatel and later Magdeburg and Halberstadt. In 1793 he became the first provincial minister of the newly acquired province of South Prussia . In 1795 he acquired the Magdeburg Canon Curia . From 1795 to 1798 the Silesian Provincial Minister Karl Georg Heinrich von Hoym took over this task. From 1798, however, Voss was again entrusted with official business and remained in office until South Prussia was occupied by enemy troops in the Fourth Coalition War in 1806 (see also Peace of Tilsit ).

After the death of his father-in-law, he received the Marschall Palace in Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin in 1800 (today's Vossstrasse on this site, named after one of his relatives).

On February 20, 1808, he was dismissed as royal commissioner.

After that von Voss lived in seclusion, partly in Buch. He managed his holdings in Buch, Karow, Wartenberg, Flotow, Stavenow (near Perleberg ) and Trossin and had a large collection of music and old musical instruments. It was not until 1821, when the king's trust in Hardenberg's management began to decline, that von Voss called in again for important consultations. On September 16, 1822 he was appointed Vice President of the Ministry and the Prussian State Council. Two days before his death, the king awarded him the Order of the Black Eagle .

At the cathedral monastery in Magdeburg he owned the senior councilor of the von dem Bussche-Streithorst family until the end of his life . The successor to this prebend was after the year of grace of the Voss heirs from March 1825 Clamor August Friedrich Wilhelm von dem Bussche zu Steinhausen (1776-1831).

family

On December 11, 1780, he married Countess Karoline Maria Susanne Finck von Finckenstein (1751–1828), daughter of the cabinet minister under Friedrich II , Karl Wilhelm Graf Finck von Finckenstein . After his marriage, since his father still lived on the family property in Buch, he bought the Wartenberg estate in Niederbarnim nearby . There and in Berlin he alternately took up residence. Otto von Voss had the following children with his wife:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Maximilian (born May 3, 1782 - † February 28, 1847), since October 15, 1840 1st Count of Voss-Buch
  • Karl Otto Friedrich (born September 26, 1786; † February 3, 1864), 2nd Count of Voss-Buch
  • Auguste Amalie (March 17, 1787 - November 13, 1861) ⚭ 1812 Count Heinrich Friedrich Leopold Finck von Finckenstein (June 14, 1782 - November 18, 1868), son of Friedrich Ludwig Karl Finck von Finckenstein
  • Caroline Friederike Wilhelmine von Voss (* August 28, 1789 - † February 11, 1851).
  • Otto Karl Philipp (born August 31, 1794; † November 10, 1836), district administrator ⚭ 1830 Albertine Ulrike Luise Finck von Finckenstein (born July 22, 1796; † July 24, 1862) widow of August Wilhelm von Schierstedt (1781–1827)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guido Skirlo, The Broad Way - in Lost Cityscape , Ed .: State Capital Magdeburg, 2005, page 404
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Otto Carl Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Secret Minister of State and Dean in the Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1823
Place of death Berlin