Otto von Strandmann

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Otto Magnus von beach Man ( Russian Отто Магнус фон Штрандман ; born October 10, jul. / 21st October  1746 greg. In Dubinsky , † January 30 jul. / 11. February  1827 greg. On Zirsten ) was a Russian lieutenant general .

Life

family

Strandmann was a member of a German-Baltic family that has been documented in Riga since the 17th century , was raised to the imperial nobility in 1740 and received the Livonian indigenous population in 1750 and the Estonian indigenous population in 1827 . His parents were the Russian captain and heir to Kroppenhof , Zirsten and Teutschenbergen, Gustav von Strandmann (1704–1778) and Christine Eleonore von Hirschheydt (1716–1783). The Russian infantry general Gustav Ernst von Strandmann (1742–1803) was his older brother.

In 1783 he married Anna Margareta Juliana Stenbock (1765–1790). The marriage resulted in four sons and one daughter.

Career

Strandmann began his career in Russian military service in 1758 and participated in the regulation of the Daugava in 1765. His promotion to Major connected to the position of an upper Quartermaster he received the 1,771th beach man became in 1773 to Lieutenant Colonel and 1779 to Colonel , same time he became commander of the Vyborg Infantry Regiment. In 1787 he was a brigadier , rose to major general in 1789 and finally advanced to lieutenant general in 1796.

From his father's inheritance he was the owner of the Zirsten and Teutschenbergen estates in Livonia and at Hackhof in Estonia . Strandmann was a conservative state politician and in 1803 spoke out against restricting the rights of landowners. In 1791 he sold his Livonian goods to the Legation Councilor von Gerngroß.

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  1. ^ Heinrich von Hagemeister : Materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia. Volume 1, Eduard Frantzen's Buchhandlung, Riga 1836, p. 212.