Constantin von Weiß
Constantin von Weiß (born July 29, 1877 in Tsarskoe Selo , † June 17, 1959 in Augsburg ) was a German-Baltic officer.
Life
He was born as the eldest son of the Imperial Russian Major General Alexander von Weiss and his wife Alexandrine. First in the Imperial Russian Army , he commanded the Baltic regiment in the Estonian War of Freedom from 1918 to 1920 . After 1920 he served as a colonel in the Estonian army .
Weiß managed to integrate the Baltic German volunteers into the Estonian army and thus - unlike in Latvia - to create a common basis for the coexistence of the ethnic groups in the young Republic of Estonia. In 1945, Weiss fled West Prussia via Mecklenburg to Heuerstubben near Ahrensbök in Holstein .
Awards
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Russian Order of Saint George , 4th grade (1915) -
Order of St. Vladimir , 3rd class -
Russian Order of Saint Anne , 2nd class -
Order of Saint Stanislaus , 2nd class -
Freedom Cross (Estonia) I / 2
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literature
- Album Estonorum, Tallinn 1939, addendum 1961
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Constantin von Weiß. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Estonian Historical Archives ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Baltic Historical Commission: From the Baltic Provinces to the Baltic States. 1977, p. 10.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | White, Constantin von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weiss, Konstantin Alexander Clemens von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German officer and Imperial Russian colonel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tsarskoye Selo |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1959 |
| Place of death | augsburg |