Otto von der Groeben (politician, 1797)
Otto von der Groeben (born February 18, 1797 in Kallisten near Liebstadt , † December 13, 1856 in Berlin ) was a German manor owner and politician.
Life
Otto was the fifth son of Hans Carl von der Groeben (1749-1818), Prussian lieutenant and manor owner in Kallisten, and his wife Amalie Friederike, born von Ostau (1864-1807) from the Lablacken family.
Groeben received his education and training partly at home and partly in a boarding school in Quittainen . In 1813 he voluntarily joined an East Prussian Jäger Detachement under the leadership of the then captain and later lieutenant general Karl August von Esebeck and was promoted to Oberjäger shortly before the battle of Großbeeren . In the years 1813/15 he participated in all three wars of freedom and was involved in the battles near Großbeeren, Dennewitz and the Battle of Nations near Leipzig . In the Battle of Leipzig he received a light grazing wound on his right foot. Towards the end of 1813 he was promoted to secondary lieutenant and transferred to the then 3rd Westphälische Landwehr Regiment . In 1816 he attended the school for Landwehr officers in Koblenz, which was established in the same year and was then transferred to the Grenadier Landwehr Battalion in Hamm at the suggestion of his superiors . In 1817 he was transferred to the 1st Battalion in the 1st Guard Landwehr Regiment in Königsberg . From 1820 to 1821 he was assigned to the cadet corps in Berlin and from 1822 to 1824 he attended the general war school . In 1825 he was assigned to the topographic office in Berlin; in the summer of 1826 he took his leave from the army.
After his marriage in 1826, he bought the noble Kallisten family estate with the consent and simultaneous waiver of his siblings' claims. The estate had belonged to the family since 1696 and consisted of 600 hectares of land and four farms.
From 1842 to 1851 he was district administrator for the district of Mohrungen .
In the summer of 1855 he was appointed a lifelong member of the Prussian mansion as a representative of the Groebenschen Family Foundation .
On October 10, 1826, he married Mathilde (1800–1841), the daughter of District Administrator Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Berg, Lord of Groß Borken. The marriage remained childless.
Awards
- Otto von der Groeben received the right to inherit the Iron Cross II class and the Russian Order of St. George V class.
- In the autumn of 1855 he received the Order of St. John from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and thus became a Knight of Honor of the order.
literature
- Berliner Revue: social-political weekly. 1857.1 p. 144f . Heinicke, 1857 ( google.de [accessed January 12, 2018]).
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses. 1903. Fourth year, p. 351.
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred Höhne: Callists - East Prussia. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
- ↑ The Inheritance of the Iron Cross 1814 | EPOCH OF NAPOLEON. Retrieved on May 20, 2018 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groeben, Otto von der |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manor owner and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Callists at Liebstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1856 |
| Place of death | Berlin |