Otto zu Rantzau (1835–1910)

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The manor house on Gut Pronstorf, view of the courtyard facade
The courtyard of Breitenburg Castle. Left the west wing, right the north wing

Otto August Christian Karl Johann Wilhelm Graf zu Rantzau-Breitenburg (* July 5, 1835 in Heidelberg , † May 23, 1910 in Breitenburg ) was a German court official, foreign service official, manor owner and parliamentarian .

Life

Otto Rantzau came from the house of Breitenburg of the Holstein nobility ( Equites Originarii ) Rantzau and was the only son of Kuno zu Rantzau-Breitenburg on Gut Rohlstorf and his wife Amalasuntha Bothmer (1810-1856).

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1857 and studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1857 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . After graduating, he became a Grand Ducal Chamberlain and Legation Councilor . By marriage in 1872 he became administrator of the Pronstorf estate in the Segeberg district and later entrant at Breitenburg Castle . In the Prussian Army he reached the rank of first lieutenant.

From 1894 to 1898 he sat as a member of the constituency Schleswig-Holstein 15 (Segeberg) in the Prussian House of Representatives . He belonged to the faction of the Free Conservative Party . He was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein .

He was married to Adelheid Luise, born in 1872. from Buchwaldt (* 1847) to Pronstorf. The couple had five children, including Hans-Kaspar Graf zu Rantzau-Breitenburg .

literature

  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 311.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 50
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 712
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. 78 (1905), p. 681
personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, Otto too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rantzau, Otto August Christian Karl Johann Wilhelm Graf too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official, foreign service official, manor owner and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1910
Place of death Breitenburg