Friedrich Wilhelm von Wistinghausen

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Wistinghausen , also Frederick William Westinghousen (born October 14, 1777 in Reval , † February 17, 1840 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German-Baltic nobleman , merchant , mayor , entrepreneur and Russian councilor .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm von Wistinghausen founded the trading company for commissions "Wistinghausen, Evans & Co" in London in 1798 , from 1799 he was a partner in the trading house Schneider & Co. The trading house FW Wistinghausen & Co. existed in London from 1801 and went bankrupt in 1814. In 1811 he came back to Reval, where he became mayor and businessman. On the basis of a contract signed in London in 1814, he founded Russia's first machine-operated paper mill in Peterhof and was director there until 1829. In 1829 he had to file for his private bankruptcy . At the same time he was head of the imperial grinding shop in Peterhof from 1816 to 1829, for which he was also responsible for the disintegration. In 1825 he was given the Russian rank of councilor and in 1826, without having the necessary knowledge, he was given the supervisory post of the water arts in the park of Peterhof. With the help of imperial privileges , he also began to build a private paper mill in Reval in 1826, but its completion fails due to an early bankruptcy. He published an album with drawings which is kept in the archives of Peterhof Palace .

Origin and family

Friedrich Wilhelm von Wistinghausen came from an established council family in Reval. His father was the Revaler businessman Johann Christian von Wistinghausen (1743–1787), who was married to Margarethe Buchau (1745–1896). Friedrich Wilhelm married Marie Auguste Schneider (* around 1775 in London, † around February 23, 1835) in London, their descendants were:

  • Elizabeth Margaretha Wistinghausen (* 1802)
  • Edmund William Wistinghausen (* August 29, 1804 in London, † July 31, 1863 in Saint Petersburg) ∞ Alexandrine Baroth (* 1805 in Reval, † 1879 in Saint Petersburg)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margit Schulte Beerbühl: German merchants in London: World Trade and Naturalization (1660-1818) . Publications of the German Historical Institute London / Publications of the German Historical Institute London, Volume 61. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 3-486-70763-9 , p. 303/304, books.google.de


personal data
SURNAME Wistinghausen, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westinghousen, Frederick William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic nobleman, businessman, mayor, entrepreneur and Russian councilor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1840
Place of death St. Petersburg