Georg Friedrich von Fölkersahm

George von Foelckersahm

Georg Friedrich von Fölkersahm (born November 10, 1764 in Steinensee , † November 18, 1848 in Riga ) was the Russian Privy Councilor and civil governor of Livonia .

Life

origin

Georg Friedrich came from the Livonian noble family von Fölkersahm . He was a son of the Danish lieutenant captain and heir to Steinensee, Gotthard Friedrich von Fölkersahm († 1764) and Anna Louisa von Plater († after 1767).

Career

Fölkersahm, who grew up on his father's estate , went to school in Mitau from 1781 to 1786 . His subsequent studies in Göttingen concluded in 1789. His cavalier tour led to Switzerland , particularly to Lausanne . In 1791 Fölkersahm returned to Courland . When the Kościuszko uprising broke out , Duke Peter von Biron commissioned him as General Commissioner to supply the Russian troops on the Courland border. Catherine II awarded him the Order of St. Vladimir IV class in 1795 . Also in 1795 he became secretary of the knighthood of Courland and, in this function, was one of the signatories of the recognition of Russian sovereignty in St. Petersburg as a delegate of the Courland nobility in the course of the Third Partition of Poland . On the occasion of the occasion, he returned to St. Petersburg as a delegate from Courland in 1801 and 1803, but in the same year resigned as Knight's Secretary and assumed the character of a court counselor . Nevertheless, he was sent again to St. Petersburg by the Courland Knights Bank in 1807 and appointed to the council of the Courland government government in 1809 .

At the beginning of the war in 1812 he went first to St. Petersburg, but then to Riga where he was employed in the office of the war governor Marquis Filippo Paulucci . He took part in the expedition to Memel and took over the business of general manager there. He received the Order of St. Anne, 2nd class and took his leave as a councilor.

Fölkersahm then became the office director of the Governor General in Riga. In 1813 he was appointed to the council of colleges, in 1817 to the council of state and finally in 1826 to the real council of state. In 1828 he was enrolled in the Livonian knighthood . He was the heir to Steinensee.

family

Georg Friedrich married on November 29, 1795 in Mitau with the widow of the Imperial and Royal Lieutenant Field Marshal Jacob Friedrich von den Brincken († 1791), Benigna Gottlieb Voigt (1771–1861), daughter of the Courland Finance Council and rent master Hermann Voigt and Anna von the eyrie . The marriage resulted in nine children, seven of which reached adulthood:

• Amalia von Fölkersam (1799–1864), ⚭ 1818 Baron Michael von Mengden (1781–1855), Russian major general
• Gottliebe von Fölkersam (1801–1876), ⚭ 1827 Baron Theodor von der Howen adH Würzau († 1878)
• Theodor von Fölkersam (1802–1871), Russian consul general in Paris
• Edmund von Fölkersam (1803–1869), Russian major general, adjutant to Prince Iwan Fjodorowitsch Paskewitsch , ⚭ 1834 Pauline Schill (1810–1852)
• Valerian von Fölkersam (1807–1886), heir to Steinensee, ⚭ 1836 Alexandra Walujew (1818–1886)
• Eugen von Fölkersam (1809–1883), Russian hussar cavalry master and vice-president of the Baltic domain court, ⚭ 1838 Baroness Maria von Vietningoff-Scheel adH Turmont (1819–1889)
• Hamilkar von Fölkersahm (1811–1856), Livonian land marshal , ⚭ 1832 Elisabeth von Krüdener (1811–1879)

literature

• Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods, part 1, 1: Livland , Görlitz 1929, p. 494f
• Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard von Napiersky : General dictionary of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Vol. 1, Mitau 1826, p. 588
• Oskar Stavenhagen : Genealogical Manual of the Courland Knighthood , Vol. 1, Görlitz o. J., P. 248 u. P. 251f

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg Friedrich von Fölkersahm. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael von Mengden on ru.wikipedia
2. ↑ Julius von Eckardt :  Fölkersahm, Hamilcar Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 148.