Otto Pogwisch


Otto Pogwisch was a Danish government official who held a number of important offices during the reign of Christian V.

Career

He was general war commissioner "government") and a Supreme Court justice. In 1674, he was vice president of Danish Chancellery and president of the Supreme Court.

Property

Pogwisch was at an early age the owner of Ås but already sold it in 1633. He received Jernit as dowry and succeeded his heaily indebted father-in-law as owner of the estates Palstrup, Aldrupgård, Hagsholm, Løjstrup and Ørs but in 1662-65 had to sell most of them to Mogens Friis;
Pogwisch was again the owner of Palstrup in 1665-72). He was also the owner of Torpegård, Haling Hovgård, Tyrrestrup, Lerbæk, Ryumgård, Hjermeslevgård, Hollufgård, Fodbygård, Frydendal, Saltø, Kongsdal, Toftholm and Vennergård.
In spite of his many estates, Pogwisch struggled with economic difficulties, some of which he had probably taken over from his father-in-law. In 1680, an audit commission concluded that Pogwisch owed 10,000 Danish rigsdaler to the Crown. He was unable to raise the money and had to sell his house in Copenhagen in public auction.