Nikolai Totleben
Count Nikolai Georg Eduard Totleben (Тотлебен Николай Эдуардович; born February 11, 1874 in Saint Petersburg , † February 4, 1945, presumably in Halle ad Saale ) was a German-Baltic nobleman , Russian count and major general of the Imperial Russian Army .
Origin and family
Count NE Totleben came from the noble noble family Totleben . He was the son of the general engineer Franz Eduard Graf Totleben (1818-1884), who had been raised to the rank of Russian count in 1879, and Elise von Hauff (1833-1907). Nikolai Totleben married Olga Gauger (1878–1976), they had four daughters, and with him the male line of the count family died out.
Life
His military career began in 1891 with training in the 2nd Cadet Corps . On 4 August 1892 he was promoted to officer cadet and served in an infantry - battalion . With promotion to lieutenant in 1894 he moved to the bodyguard of a sapper -Bataillons. In 1898 he was promoted to lieutenant and in 1901 to captain . In this rank he was a battalion adjutant . In 1905 he was promoted to company commander and in 1913 to colonel . Thus he was used as the deputy battalion commander of the 26th Sappeur Battalion. In 1914 he took over command of the 26th Sappeur Battalion. In 1917 he was discharged from the Imperial Russian Army, with all honors, as Major General.
Awards
Russian medals
- 1904: Order of St. Stanislaus , 3rd class
- 1906: Russian Order of Saint Anne , 3rd class
- 1909: Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class
- 1912: Russian Order of Saint Anne, 2nd class
- 1914: Golden sword for bravery
- 1915: Russian Order of Saint Anne, 2nd class with swords
- 1916: Russian Order of St. Vladimir , 3rd class with swords
Foreign medals
- 1886: Order of the Crown of Romania , 3rd class
- 1903: Knight of the French Legion of Honor
- 1905: Prussian Red Eagle Order
- 1905: Persian Order of the Sun and Lions , 3rd class
- 1909: Mecklenburg-Schwerin Cross of Honor for the Order of the Griffin
- 1913: Star of Romania , 2nd class
- 1913: Bulgarian Order of St. Alexander , 3rd class
- 1913: Serbian Order of the White Eagle
literature
- Nicolai von Essen (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Oeselschen Ritterschaft , Tartu 1935, p. 602
Web links
- Data sheet: Nikolai Georg Eduard Graf Totleben
- Biography: граф Тотлебен Николай Эдуардович (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Totleben, Nikolai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Totleben, Nikolai Georg Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1945 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Halle ad Saale |