Ottokar von Witzendorff

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Groß Zecher manor
Gravestone of Ottokar von Witzendorff

Ottokar Christian Hartwig von Witzendorff , also Ottocar Hartwig Christian von Witzendorff (born May 30, 1824 in Groß Zecher ; † February 1, 1890 ibid), was a German landowner and district administrator.

Life

Ottokar von Witzendorff came from the Lower Saxon noble family Witzendorff . He was the younger son and one of nine children of Karl Gotthard Hieronymus von Witzendorff (1771–1841) and his wife Henriette Luise Adelheit von Seebach (1799–1878). He attended the Johanneum Lüneburg until 1843 and studied law at the University of Göttingen .

After the death of his older brother Wilhelm August Maximilian von Witzendorff (1822–1849), he inherited the family fideikommiss Groß Zecher and the allodial estates Webelsfelde (now part of Mühlen Eichsen ) and Seedorf (Lauenburg) , which he took care of from then on. Connected with the possession of Seedorf was the church patronage for the St. Clemens St. Katharinen Church in Seedorf.

In addition, he was one of the decisive personalities in the political life of the small Duchy of Lauenburg for over 20 years in the turbulent years of multiple changes of supremacy between Denmark, Austria and Prussia. On June 14, 1850, the Royal Danish Government appointed him to a commission of six "respectable" Lauenburg men. In addition to Witzendorff, there were Count Ludwig Ferdinand von Kielmannsegg auf Gülzow , bailiff Joachim Bernhard Susemihl , judiciary Walter, Senator Dahm in Mölln and landowner Ernst Philipp Berckemeyer . They were asked to submit a draft constitution for the duchy that would restore it to its pre-1848 state. The sovereign patent of December 20, 1853 relating to the internal constitution of the Duchy of Lauenburg created a new, old rural order under absolute Danish sovereignty.

Within this order, von Witzendorff was chivalrous member of the state parliament in the Duchy of Lauenburg and chivalrous consistory assessor in the Ratzeburg consistory . After the occupation of the Duchy in the German-Danish War , he was appointed District Administrator for the Duchy of Lauenburg on October 21, 1864 at the suggestion of the Knights and Landscapes by the Federal Commissioners .

When the Duchy came to Prussia as a result of the Gastein Convention , v. Witzendorff is about designing the transfer negotiations with the landscape in mind. He and others succeeded in preserving the special status of the Lauenburg Regional Association and other privileges. In 1875, now as a landscape councilor (in contrast to the Prussian district administrator), he became patronage representative for the Lauenburg school of scholars .

His marriage to Ida Auguste Karoline Lindemann (1852–1928), a daughter of the Schwerin gas works owner Johann Georg Friedrich Lindemann (1805–1872), in 1869, remained childless. So this line of the Witzendorffs died out with him. He was buried in the churchyard at the St. Clemens St. Katharinen Church in Seedorf. After his death, his widow became the mistress of Gut Seedorf. There she erected what is now called Schloss Seedorf as a mansion .

Awards

literature

  • Jürgen de Vries: Bismarck and the Duchy of Lauenburg: the incorporation of Lauenburg into Prussia 1865-1876. (= Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein 94; series of publications by the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation 16) Neumünster: Wachholtz 1989 ISBN 978-3-529-02194-7 , also: Braunschweig, Techn. Univ., Diss., 1987

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Specimen studiorum Platonicorum school program 1843, p. 17
  2. ↑ Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg. 1864, p. 307
  3. ↑ See de Vries (Lit.), pp. 149ff
  4. ^ Lauenburg School of Academics, School Program 1876, p. 11
  5. ↑ To him and his successful, but controversial company, see the pamphlet Beckmann Olofson: Geschichtliches und Wissenschaftliches about: The gas works in Schwerin. Hamburg: Niemeyer 1856 ( digitized ) and Bernd Kasten , Jens-Uwe Rost: Schwerin: History of the city. Schwerin: Helms 2005 ISBN 978-3-935749-38-1
  6. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Handbook of letter noble houses. Sixth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1912, pp. 1045–1051.
  7. ↑ Handbook on the royal Prussian court and state. 1875, p. 31
  8. ↑ Order of St. John Sheet: official monthly journal of the Balley Brandenburg. 1890, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Witzendorff, Ottokar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witzendorff, Ottokar Christian Hartwig von (full name); Witzendorff, Ottocar Hartwig Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Big reveler
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1890
Place of death Big reveler