Friedrich von Löwen (governor)

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Friedrich von Löwen

Friedrich von Löwen ( Russian Фридрих фон Лёвен ; * 7 May 1654 in Lohde ; † 25 August July / 5 September  1744 greg. In Reval ) was a Russian major general and governor in Estonia .

Life

Origin and family

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Friedrich came from an Estonian noble family who were wealthy at Lohde Castle from 1603 to 1771 . His parents were the Swedish lieutenant colonel , Estonian knight captain and district administrator Georg Johann von Löwen (1630–1681) and Barbara Dorothea von Fersen from the house of Rayküll († 1698).

He married Elisabeth in 1679, widowed Schrapfer, born von Nieroth from the Weissenfeld family , daughter of the Estonian district administrator Magnus von Nieroth († 1671). The marriage resulted in eight children, including the Russian major general and Estonian district administrator and knighthood captain Gustav von Löwen (1690–1766).

Career

Löwen was in French service from 1708 to 1710 with the regiment "Sparre" . In 1710 he was promoted to major in the Swedish service, but then transferred to Russian services . From 1696 to 1721 he was the Estonian district administrator. As a Russian major general, he was vice governor in Reval from 1711 to 1730 . During this time, due to the absence of the governor general, he frequently ran the business and was very influential. From 1730 to 1736 he held the post of governor in Estonia. He was adopted due to illness in 1736 .

At the request of the knighthood, he undertook the first revision of Estonian knight and land law and initiated the decree of the Governor General of Estonia on church building and preacher justice of 1719.

Löwen was the heir to the Estonian estates of Seyer, Lohde, Wannamois and Lautel .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , Bd .: 1, Görlitz, [1931], p. 714.
  2. ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (arr.): Genealogical Handbook of the Estonian Knighthood , Vol .: 3, Görlitz, [1930], p. 32.
  3. ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , vol .: 1, Görlitz, [1931], p. 715.
personal data
SURNAME Löwen, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лёвен, Фридрих фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian major general and governor of Estonia
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH Lohde
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1744
Place of death Reval