Alexander von Rahden
Baron Alexander von Rahden Emmanuel ( Russian Александр Эмманюэль фон Раден ; born February 22 . Jul / 6. March 1859 greg. In Halle (Saale) , † October 23 . Jul / 5. November 1920 . Greg in Mitau ) was a Courland Land Messenger Marshal and Plenipotentiary .
Life
origin
Alexander was a member of the noble family of the Barons von Rahden . He was a son of the private scholar Ernst Baron von Rahden (1809–1873) and the Swiss Magdalene, b. Dürst (1819–1873).
Career
Rahden attended the city grammar school in Halle from 1869 to 1875 and graduated from the Nikolai grammar school in Libau in 1876 . From 1877 to 1881 he studied law in Dorpat .
From 1881 to 1884 he was court clerk and from 1882 to 1884 also district tax in Hasenpoth , and from 1884 to 1886 district judge in Friedrichstadt . From 1886 to 1888 he was second secretary, from 1888 to 1899 board member and from 1899 to 1914 first secretary of the Courland Credit Union in Mitau.
Since 1896 he was the owner of the Maihof estate near Mitau. From 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the Courland Provincial Council and the conferences of the Baltic Governor General in Riga , several times Landbotenmarschall and director of the Brotherly Conferences of the Courland Knighthood , and until 1910 a delegate of the local group Mitau of the Association of Germans in Courland, finally court master of the Imperial Court .
During the war years he was exiled to Siberia for alleged German partisanship , but was able to return to Courland as a result of the October Revolution and served as the Courland Plenipotentiary from 1917 to 1919. Also since 1917 he was a member and from 1918 chairman of the Courland Provincial Council. He was also an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .
Rahden was an important genealogist and editor of the yearbook for genealogy, heraldry and sphragistics . From 1890 to 1896 he was a member of the genealogical commission of the Courland Knighthood and founder, from 1893 to 1896 and 1898 to 1906 chairman of the genealogical section, finally until 1913 a member of the select committee of the Courland Society for Literature and Art . From 1906 he was chairman of the Genealogical Society of the Baltic Sea Provinces and founded the Courland State Archives. He was a corresponding member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces in Riga from 1900, co-director from 1901 to 1920 and honorary member in 1913. Since 1913 was also an honorary member of the Estonian Literary Society .
family
His marriage to Elisabeth Wilhelmine Freiin Knigge (1865–1945) in 1886 resulted in three daughters and one son.
literature
- Oskar Stavenhagen (Ed.): Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods part 3, 2: Kurland, Lfg. 9–12, Görlitz undated, pp. 699–701 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Alexander Emanuel Baron von Rahden. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oskar Stavenhagen (Ed.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights Part 3, 2: Kurland, Lfg. 9–12, Görlitz o. J., p. 732 ( digitized version )
- ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 739.
- ↑ Oskar Stavenhagen (Ed.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods Part 3, 2: Kurland, Lfg. 9-12, Görlitz undated, p. 733 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rahden, Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rahden, Alexander Emmanuel von (full name); Раден, Александр Эмманюэль фон (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Courland Land Messenger Marshal and Plenipotentiary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1920 |
| Place of death | Mitau |