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Biography
Otto Pogwisch (c. 1610 - 9 February 1684) was a Danish government official who held a number of important offices during the reign of Christian V.
Career
He was general war commissioner (generalkrigskommisær) from 1661 to 1674 with responsibility for the financial administration of the military. He was from February 1669 also a member of the Gehejmeråd )"government") and a Supreme Court justice. In 1674, he was vice president of Danish Chancellery and president (justitiarius ) of the Supreme Court.
Property
Pogwisch was at an early age the owner of Ås (Børglum Herred) but already sold it in 1633. He received Jernitas 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;
Pogwischwas again the owner of Palstrupin 1665-72). He was also the owner of Torpegård (until 1669), Haling Hovgård (1665–68), Tyrrestrup (1662–68), Lerbæk ( 1665–72), Ryumgård (1666–72), Hjermeslevgård (1666(?)-68), Hollufgård ( 1667–69), Fodbygård (), Frydendal (from 1671), Saltø (1668-1684), Kongsdal (Tygestrup (1672-), Toftholm () and Vennergård (a share, 1680–84).
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.