Joachim Otto von Bassewitz

Joachim Otto von Bassewitz or Bassewiß (8 February 1686 - 10 March 1733) was a statesman and politician from the Holy Roman Empire. He was a Geheimrat of Holstein-Gottorp, president of the chamber and bailiff (amtmann) at Kiel.

Life From the old Mecklenburg family of Bassewitz, his parents were the landrat Philipp Cuno von Bassewitz and Catharina Oelgard von Lehsten. Joachim's first wife was Catharina Ilsabe von Bassewitz (1693–1717), with whom he had a daughter (the future writer Sabine Elisabeth Oelgard von Bassewitz) and a son (Henning Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz) who predeceased him. After Catharina's death he married again in 1720 to Adelheid Benedicte von Ahlefeldt, daughter of Benedikt von Ahlefeldt and Elisabeth von Moltke, with whom he had one child, who also predeceased him. and later as Amtmann von Bordesholm, Kiel and Neumünster. He was also Geheimrat to the Bishop of Lübeck in Eutin.