Nicolai from Essen

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Nicolai von Essen (also Nikolai , Russian Николай Карлович Эссен ; born July 14, 1885 in Schuwalowo, Saint Petersburg , † April 4, 1945 in Prague ) was a German-Baltic officer in the imperial Russian service and genealogist.

Life

Nicolai von Essen was a descendant of the von Essen family (House Kiwidepäh - Parmel ), who came from Westphalia and was matriculated in Estonia and Livonia . He was the son of Major General Karl Friedrich Magnus von Essen (1851–1915) and his wife Sophia, born in Russia. Moldakova (1860-1912).

Like his father, he completed a career in the Russian military. He attended the Alexander Cadet Corps from 1903 and entered the Pavlov Military School in 1905. From April 1905 he was a lieutenant in the Semyonovskoye bodyguard regiment . He took part in several battles of the First World War and was wounded several times. Most recently in the rank of colonel, he went to St. Petersburg after the regiment was dissolved in December 1917, where he worked as an archivist at the Hermitage from 1918 . In 1920 he went to Estonia, where he lived in Tartu and from 1928 he lived in Tallinn.

After retiring from the military, he devoted himself to the genealogy of the Baltic noble houses. He was a member of the Imperial Military Historical Society, the St. Petersburg Genealogical Society and the Moscow Genealogical Society. From the beginning of the 1920s until 1939 he was a genealogist of the Estonian Knighthood in Reval and headed the archive of the Estonian Non-Profit Association. He was the editor of the " Oesel " part of the genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, which was published in several volumes . Other employees were u. a. Heinrich von zur Mühlen , OM von Stackelberg and Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck .

In 1939 he was resettled in the Reichsgau Wartheland in Posen as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact . where he worked from 1940 to 1944 as an employee of the state clan office.

Nicolai von Essen married Rita Peetz (born April 14, 1889) on September 16, 1907 in St. Petersburg. The marriage had the children Nikolai (born December 19, 1908) and Irina (born December 25, 1918).

Von Essen died in 1945 in Prague, which was occupied by the Germans.

Awards

  • Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd Class (1906)
  • Order of St. Anne 3rd Class with Swords and a Bow (1914)
  • Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class with Swords (1915)
  • Order of St. Vladimir 4th class with swords and a bow
  • Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd Class with Swords (1915)
  • Order of St. Anne 4th class with the inscription "for bravery" (1916)

Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods. Part 2, 1: Estonia. Pp. 69/77.
  2. ↑ a b c Project: Russian Army in World War I (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Essen, Nicolai von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic officer (Russia) and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Shuvalovo, Saint Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1945
Place of death Prague