Ivan of Brevern

Coat of arms of those of Brevern

Iwan von Brevern (baptized name: Iwan, first name: Johann; Иван (Иоганн) Христофорович Бреверн, * December 3, 1812 in Jörden , Estonia ; † April 29, 1885 in Saint Petersburg ) came from the German-Baltic noble family of the "von Brevern" . He was Lieutenant Governor of Livonia and later civil governor of the province Kurland .

Life

His father, Christoph Engelbrecht von Brevern, was also the civil governor of the Courland Governorate, his mother Julie was born von Strandmann . Ivan attended the Russian elite school " Lyceum Tsarskoje Selo " and in 1832 took a position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Saint Petersburg. In 1835 he joined the Imperial Russian Army as an ensign and served in the Volhyn Guard Regiment (Волынский лейб-гвардии полк), followed by a position as a second lieutenant in the Riding Guard Regiment . In 1839 he was discharged from the army as a lieutenant .

Iwan von Bevern initially worked as a farmer on his father's property and in 1845 became the secretary of the Courland government. From 1846 to 1852 he took over the position of a special representative at the Governor General in Riga as a civil servant . This was followed by a brief assignment as a chamberlain in 1852 , which was directly followed by the office of lieutenant governor of Livonia. In 1858 he was appointed civil governor of Courland, in this capacity he made an outstanding contribution to the development of the cities and the promotion of rural property. He succeeded in repelling the Polish uprisings in 1862 and 1863 and in 1865 settled the unrest in Courland. As a privy councilor and as a senator he continued to be politically active between 1865 and 1868.

family

Ivan v. B. married Catharina von Arpshoven (1817–1904), a daughter of Major General Georg von Apshofen on Lagena (Estonia) and Alexandra Petrowna Demidow , children:

• Marie (1841–1916), married. with Julius Baron von Oelsen † 1895
• Georg von Brevern * April 1, 1843 in Lagena † March 3, 1898 in Riga , Russian major general and commander of a reserve brigade with the rank of division general , m. with Anna Wilhelmine Rücker * 1850
• Alexander von Brevern (born March 27, 1845 in Mitau † January 10, 1897 in Mitau), Herr auf Szagarren ( Lithuania ) and Dritzan (in the Vitebsk governorate ), married. with Theophile von der Ropp (1848–1887)
• Catharina Isalie (* 1874) married. with Georg Fürst von Lieven † 1910
• Nicolai von Brevern * August 2, 1848 in Riga † murdered January 22, 1919, judge at the Warsaw Court of Appeal , Warsaw State Council , m. with Alexandrine Henriette Countess Zoege von Manteufel (* 1855)
• Woldemar von Brevern * December 12, 1857 in Riga † July 9, 1905 between Grobiņa (Latvia) and Gawesen (murdered by revolutionaries), peasant commissioner, married. with Barbara Wöhrmann * 1862
  • Dimitri von Brevern * November 28, 1888 in Mitau † June 17, 1889 in Mitau
  • Johann (Hans) von Brevern * February 25, 1890 in Mitau, official of the Courland Governorate, Russian officer , merchant in Harbin ( Manchuria ), married. with Olga Gosronow * 1896 in Ashgabat ( Turkmenistan )
    • Helene von Brevern * 1924 in Charbin

Awards

Ivan von Brevern was decorated with the following Russian orders :

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  Order of St. Vladimir (3rd class)

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  Order of Saint Stanislaus (1st class)

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  Russian Order of Saint Anne (1st class)

literature

• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods , part 3.1: Kurland, Volume 1, Görlitz 1939 p. 221.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Iwan von Brevern. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Governors of Latvia (Governors of Courland)
2. ↑ "During the reorganization of the administrative and judicial system in 1889, the parish court, which had previously exercised a certain degree of supervision over the management of the municipal administrations, was dissolved and peasant commissioners appointed by the governor were introduced ... The B. were entrusted with the control and supervision of peasant self-government. "Compare the Baltic legal dictionary" Bauernkommissar " [1]