Otto Johann von Maydell

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Family coat of arms of the von Maydell family awarded by the King of Sweden in 1693

Baron Otto Johann Maydell (also Maidel or Maijdell ), (born April 5, 1682 in Etz in ( Wierland ); † unknown), was a Swedish and Russian baron and most recently Field Marshal General of the Russian Army .

family

Baron Otto Johann von Maydell was the son of Georg Johann Maydell and Hedwig Helene von Taube, daughter of Frommhold Taube von Etz, Fähna and Kohne. His first wife was Countess Auguste de St. Pol. She gave birth to a son and two daughters.

Children from first marriage
  • Baron Karl Johann von Maydell (* unknown; † first half of 1743) Major, in which army is unknown
  • Baroness Beate von Maydell (* unknown; † unknown) married Christian Ludwig Scheidt
  • Baroness Franziska Helene von Maydell (* unknown; † unknown) married Mr. Liebesberg

His second wife, Baroness Charlotte von Tiesenhausen , died after the birth of the youngest child in 1726 and was buried in the parish of Kegel.

Second marriage children
  • Baroness Johanna Marie von Maydell (* 1724 in Kegel, † unknown)
  • Baron Jacob Johann von Maydell (born June 5, 1726 in Kegel, † unknown)

In 1728 Maydell married Baroness Amalia Charlotta Scheiding, widow of Colonel Moritz Friedrich Wrangel , who died in the battle of Borga in 1713. She died after her husband in Goldenbeck in 1760 .

Third marriage children
  • Baroness Hedwig Helene von Maydell (born March 21, 1727 in Reval, † February 1768 in Saint Petersburg) married Major Baron Otto Gustav von Rosen
  • Baron Georg Gustav von Maydell (born December 4, 1730 in Etz, † August 29, 1766 unmarried in Rosenhof in Livonia ) Holstein colonel, probably in the Russian-Holstein troops in St. Petersburg

Military career

He joined his father's regiment as an ensign in 1698 . Together with his father he fought against the Saxon troops in front of Riga in 1700 and then in the army of Charles XII. against the Russians in the battle of Narva .

After the defense of Riga , he was made captain and transferred to Otto Welling's dragoons . After the Battle of Narva he was transferred back to the Tawastehusche Regiment and subsequently served in the Swedish province of Finland. In 1701 he took part in a successful foray against the Russians near the city of Ladoga . In 1703 he took part in the battle of Systerbäck and in 1704 in the battle of Walkiasaari .

Maydell was promoted to major in 1705 and was made lieutenant colonel the following year . In 1710 he was at the funeral of his father in Reval, which the Russians blocked and subsequently besieged. After the outbreak of the plague , the city was handed over to the Russians on September 29th. The Swedes in the city were granted free travel. So Otto Johann was able to return to Sweden and was made a colonel in 1711 .

He was then sent to Ostrobothnia to defend this province, which he succeeded in doing for a period of 47 weeks. On November 28, 1712 he was appointed commander of the Tawastehuschen Infantry Regiment, where he had once started his military career. In the same year he took part in the campaign against Henoikoiski. Defensive battles at Borga followed in 1713 and in the same year he was involved in the Battle of Palkäne . In 1714 he fought in the Battle of Storkyro and took part in the campaign against Norway in 1718 with his regiment, under the command of Lieutenant General Carl Gustaf Armfelt . On June 18, 1719, he was promoted to major general . At his request, Maydell resigned from the Swedish army on August 30, 1727 and returned to Estonia , which was now ruled by Russia .

In 1736 he joined the Imperial Russian Army. He was hired as major general of the Ukrainian land militia. In a declaration to the War College on March 30, 1736 about his earlier work, he describes his participation in a sea battle as well as eight field battles and twenty-three smaller meetings. In those skirmishes he was wounded in the right leg and right side. No further information is known about the Russian military service.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy. Handbook of Nobility, Volume FA V, page 285, CA Starke-Verlag, 1963
  2. ↑ Krohne's Adelslexikon
  3. ^ Baron Karl Anton von Maydell p. 262
  4. ↑ a b c d Baron Karl Anton von Maydell p. 263
  5. ↑ a b Baron Karl Anton von Maydell p. 264

literature

  • Baron Karl Anton von Maydell: The baronial family of Maydell , Helsingfors (1868)
personal data
SURNAME Maydell, Otto Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish baron and major general of the Swedish infantry
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1682
PLACE OF BIRTH Etz
DATE OF DEATH 18th century