Johann von Lüdinghausen called Wolff

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Johann von Lüdinghausen called Wolff (* 1770 , † 1828 ) was a Russian lieutenant general of German Baltic descent.

Origin and family environment

Peter Johann Paul Wilhelm von Lüdinghausen called Wolff came from a family of nobility originally mentioned in Westphalia since 1174, a branch of which emigrated to Courland and in 1620 was enrolled in the 1st class of the Knight's Bank of the Courland Knighthood . He himself belonged to the Kroschen line of his family and was born in Münster (Westphalia) on May 5, 1770. He entered the imperial Russian military service and took part in the wars against Napoleon . He advanced quickly, in 1813 he was already a lieutenant colonel in the Murom Infantry Regiment. On May 18, 1813, he took part in the battle at Klein-Görschen. In a report to King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia states .... was that day a new proof of his earnings and his courage and drove through the Muromsche Regiment the enemy on Kleingörschen up to the Floßgraben with great losses back ... . The king then awarded him and numerous other Russian officers the order Pour le Mérite in October 1813 . Peter Johann also took part in the 1814 campaign against Napoleon, now as a colonel, in the Tobolsk Infantry Regiment, and was again awarded the Pour le Merite for his services in the fighting in France.

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he continued to serve in the Russian army. In the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-29 , he died on June 4, 1828 as a lieutenant general in the siege of Brăila on the Danube.

He was married to Wilhelmine von Buttler (1792-1870) since December 27, 1812. He had two daughters and two sons with her, including their son Alexander (1818–1884), the emperor. Russian major general was, and the son Eugen (1820-1884), who, also a soldier, made it up to Russian lieutenant general.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 2, No. 371.
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon , Volume VIII, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1997, p. 98.
  3. ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels , Volume FA XI, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1979, p. 152.
  4. ↑ Gustav Lehmann: The Knights of the Order pour le merite , Volume 1, Awards under Friedrich Wilhelm III., Mittler, 1913, p. 86, No. 776.
  5. ^ Gustav Lehmann: The Knights of the Order pour le merite , Volume 1, Awards under Friedrich Wilhelm III., Mittler, 1913, No. 1956
personal data
SURNAME Lüdinghausen called Wolff, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Lieutenant General of German Baltic descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1770
DATE OF DEATH 1828