Friedrich von Gersdorff
Friedrich Goswin Woldemar von Gersdorff (born September 12, 1838 in Nawwast , Livonia ; † February 24, 1898 in Odessa , Ukraine ) was an Imperial Russian major general .
Life
Von Gersdorff came from the noble family Gersdorff . He was a son of Alexander Paul von Gersdorff (1804–1864) and his wife Leocadie Volmerange-Helmund (1810–1893), whose mother Luise was the daughter of Gottlob Siegmund von Brasch .
He was a German Baltic and a gentleman on Berezovka in Podolia .
At the end of November 1876, shortly beforehand promoted to lieutenant colonel, he became chief of a squadron . At the end of 1878 he was appointed colonel and from the beginning of 1888 he was deployed as commander of a reserve cavalry unit.
At the end of 1878 he had married Lyubov Leontjevna Vale-Kukuli (1848-1901) in Odessa. The couple had two sons. The son Georg Friedrich (1881–1948) later became the Russian governor and lieutenant governor of Podolia.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch Adelige Häuser A. 1923, 284.
Web link
- Personal sentence by Friedrich von Gersdorff from the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Genealogical manual of the nobility . CA Starke, 1979, p. 206 ( google.de [accessed on August 15, 2020]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gersdorff, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gersdorff, Friedrich Goswin Woldemar von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial Russian Major General |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nawwast |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1898 |
| Place of death | Odessa |