Aleksander von der Bellen
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Aleksander Konstantin von der Bellen (born July 5, 1859 in Pskow , † February 11, 1924 in Tallinn ) was a liberal Russian politician and aristocrat.
Von der Bellen belonged to a family of Dutch origin who rose to the nobility in Russia . He was the grandfather of the Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen .
Von der Bellen graduated from the Imperial Forest Institute by 1884. He was elected a member and from 1913 head of the local Zemstvo , a self-governing body of the large landowners in the city of Pskov. In February 1917, State Councilor von der Bellen was appointed head of a bourgeois local government in Pskov by the bourgeois transitional government of Russia. He resigned from office even before the October Revolution . In the summer of 1919 the family fled the Bolsheviks to Estonia without their two daughters .
Web links
- Entry in the Erik Amburger database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herwig G. Höller: Alexander Van der Bellen: A refugee child. zeit.de from March 28, 2016, accessed on January 6, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bark, Aleksander von der |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bellen, Aleksander Konstantin von der (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | liberal Russian politician and nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pskov |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1924 |
| Place of death | Tallinn |