Wolf Friedrich Ottomar von Baudissin

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Count Wolf Friedrich Ottomar von Baudissin (born January 22, 1812 in Tharandt , † January 26, 1887 in Dresden ) was a royal Danish court officer, imperial German postal director and writer from the Baudissin family .

Live and act

Wolf von Baudissin was the firstborn of 13 children of Christian Carl Graf von Baudissin (born March 4, 1790 at Gut Knoop ; † April 9, 1868 in Itzehoe ) and his wife Henriette, née Kuniger, divorced von Gähler (born January 6, 1788 in Schleswig ; † April 4, 1864 in Greifswald ) from the Knooper line of the Baudissin family. He had several siblings who were active as a writer: Adelbert (1820–1871), Ulrich (1816–1893), Asta (1817–1904) and Thekla (1812–1885). The writer Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von Baudissin was his grandmother.

After attending the school of scholars in Horsens , he began to study law at the University of Copenhagen in 1830 . In 1832 he continued his studies at the University of Kiel , where he took the exam. In 1836 he moved back to the Danish capital for further training in Danish law.

After completing his legal clerkship at the Schleswig Higher Court, von Baudissin worked from 1841 as a court officer with the Queen's body regiment in Glückstadt . In 1848 he joined the Schleswig-Holstein Army as a brigade auditor . From 1853 to 1867 he worked as a court clerk and actuary. He then switched to the postal service and from 1870 to October 1877 held the position of postal director in Sønderborg . He then moved to Dresden, where he died in 1887.

family

Gravestone of his second wife Georgine in Dresden

Wolf von Baudissin's first marriage was on September 16, 1842 in Schierensee Théonie von Mesmer-Saldern (born November 5, 1817 in Schierensee; † April 7, 1855), a sister of Aimé von Mesmer-Saldern , in Reinfeld . One son from this marriage was the imperial German admiral Friedrich Graf von Baudissin . After the death of his first wife, he married Georgine Zwank on September 10, 1859 (born September 11, 1833 in Eddelak ; † November 4, 1910 in Dresden). He also had four daughters and three other sons.

literature

  • Bernd Goldmann: Baudissin, Wolf von . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 4. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1976, p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Baudissin, Wolf Friedrich Ottomar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudissin, Wolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Danish court officer, imperial German post director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Tharandt
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1887
Place of death Dresden