# In re Otto Bremer Trust (Attorney General petition) *Ramsey County District Court and Minnesota Supreme Court matter concerning the supervision of a charitable trust under Minn. Stat. §§501B.33–.45* *Docket: Ramsey County District Court · Filed 2019 · Status as of record: trustee removed April 29, 2022; affirmed January 2023 and February 2024* In re Otto Bremer Trust is an Attorney General petition filed in 2019 in Ramsey County District Court concerning the [[Otto Bremer Trust]].[^1] It was brought under the Supervision of Charitable Trusts and Trustees Act, Minn. Stat. §§501B.33–.45.[^2] The validated *How Minnesota Got Here* master dates the litigation between the trust and the Attorney General from 2019 to 2025.[^1] According to that master, a Ramsey County order removed the trustee on April 29, 2022. The removal was affirmed in January 2023 and by the [[Minnesota Supreme Court]] in February 2024.[^1] The record for this page consists of the statute and the master's account of the disposition. The petition, the orders, and the appellate opinions are not in the record. The record does not establish the allegations, the grounds for removal, the court that ruled in January 2023, or who succeeded the trustee.[^1][^2] ## Parties and instrument The petitioner was the Attorney General of Minnesota.[^1] The subject trust is the Otto Bremer Trust.[^1] The instrument is the Supervision of Charitable Trusts and Trustees Act, Minn. Stat. §§501B.33–.45. The Revisor of Statutes publishes the operative text of §501B.33.[^2] ## Procedural history - 2019: Matter filed in Ramsey County District Court.[^1] - April 29, 2022: Ramsey County order removing the trustee.[^1] - January 2023: Removal affirmed.[^1] - February 2024: Removal affirmed by the Minnesota Supreme Court.[^1] - 2025: End date of the litigation as given in the master.[^1] ## Substrate The statutory basis is Minn. Stat. §§501B.33–.45.[^2] The master records a correction to this citation. An earlier copy of the master cited §501C.1201, the Memorial Fund provision. Validation replaced that cite with §§501B.33–.45.[^1] The record does not carry the enactment or amendment history of these sections.[^2] ## Related matters The master takes up the matter in its account of community-foundation governance, which covers the [[Variance power]] and the [[Minneapolis Foundation]]. It calls the Otto Bremer Trust litigation the one documented external check in what it terms the apex era of that form. It also describes the litigation as the only use of the Act's backstop.[^1] The record does not include any other matters.[^1] ## See also - [[Minnesota Supreme Court]] - [[Otto Bremer Trust]] - [[Minneapolis Foundation]] - [[Variance power]] - [[Minnesota]] ## Notes [^1]: *How Minnesota Got Here* (merged master, footnoted, validated), note [31], *Otto Bremer Trust matter / Supervision of Charitable Trusts and Trustees Act* (validated 2026-06-12): states that a Ramsey County order removed the trustee on April 29, 2022, that the removal was affirmed in January 2023 and by the Minnesota Supreme Court in February 2024, and that the litigation ran from 2019 to 2025. It also records the repair of the statute cite from §501C.1201. The master's cited source is marked primary-confirmed. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/501B.33 [^2]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. §501B.33* (current): operative statutory text of the Supervision of Charitable Trusts and Trustees Act, Minn. Stat. §§501B.33–.45. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/501B.33