Ernst Christoph Alexander von Wolff

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Ernst Christoph Alexander Freiherr von Wolff on Fianden (born May 17, 1783 in Neu-Laitzen; † May 30, 1832 at Fianden Estate in Livonia ) was an imperial Russian officer and holder of the order Pour le Mérite .

Life

As the third son of his father Johann Gottlieb von Wolff , Ernst Christoph Alexander von Wolff chose a military career in the army of the Russian tsar, in whose guard he joined. He had his first probation in the Russo-French War and in the subsequent Wars of Liberation against Napoleon . He moved into the allied Prussia with the Russian troops in 1813 and took part with his regiment as Rittmeister in the conquest of the French-occupied Glogau .

For the achievements shown in this action, the former Prussian officer and now Russian Major General von Schoeler suggested him in a letter dated May 8, 1814 to the Prussian General von Thile for an award from the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. in front. In response to this report, the king approved the order Pour le Merite from Wolff and others in his highest cabinet order of May 13, 1814. After the war, Wolff continued to serve in the Russian Guard and advanced to the rank of colonel. After that, meanwhile an honorary appointment as Duke of Saxony-Meining Major, he retired to his Fianden estate. There he had the Fianden Castle ( Lat . : Lāzberģa Pils) built for himself and his family in 1821 . In addition, he was still the master of Gut Wolkowo ( Russ .: Wolkowka) near (today in) Saint Petersburg ( Russia ).

family

Wolff came from a council dynasty from Sagan ( Lower Silesia ), who emigrated to the Baltic States in the 17th century and received the Indigenate of the Livonian in 1726 and that of the Estonian knighthood in 1729. In 1747 he was raised to the status of imperial baron . His parents were the Livonian district administrator and landlord of the Neu-Laitzen, Reppelkaln, Luxenhof, Friedrichshof, Schwanenburg, Fianden and Semershof estates, Johann Gottlieb Freiherr von Wolff (1756-1817) and Clementine Fallois de Feoville (1759-1821). On May 20, 1815, he married in Dorpat (now Tartu , Estonia ) Sophie Constance Caroline Henriette Countess von Mengden (1796–1878). Joseph Otto Albert von Wolff was his brother.

literature

  • Nicolas Freiherr von Wolff: The imperial barons von Wolff in Livonia 1670-1920. K. Mattiesens Buchdruckerei Ant.-Ges., Tartu 1936.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Gustav Lehmann: The Knights of the Order pour le merite Volume II, Page 245, No. 1616, Mittler, Berlin, 1913
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume A XIII, Pages 534, 5345 (Ahnenzeile v. Platen), CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1975.
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels, Volume FB VIII, Page 497, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1982
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Ernst Christoph Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Ernst Christoph Alexander Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Russian officer and holder of the order Pour le Mérite
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH New Laitzen
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1832
Place of death Good Fianden, Livonia