Theodor Steinheil
Theodor von Steinheil ( Russian Теодор фон Штайнгайль even Штейнгель * 27 . Jul / 9. December 1870 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 11. April 1946 in Dresden ) was a Russian-German scientists and politicians. He supported the Ukrainian national movement.
Life
The family from Württemberg was ennobled in Tsarist Russia in the 18th century . The father Rudolf Steinheil had made a fortune building railroads in Russia .
Theodor Steinheil lived most of his life in Horodok near Rivne . The son Boris emerged from his marriage to a Ukrainian woman in 1891 . The mother died the next year. In 1893 he married Vera Mykolaivna , who gave him sons Theodor (1912) and Volodymyr .
Steinheil opened a natural science museum in Horodok in 1896. He spent the winters in Kiev . As a deputy of the city he was in the 1906 Duma elected. According to their Duma, he was one of the signatories of the Vyborg Manifesto , which called on the population to civil disobedience. After the February Revolution of 1917 he was committee chairman in the Kiev City Duma, the forerunner of the Central Na Rada . In 1918 he was the ambassador of the hetmanate in Berlin . In the interwar period he lived in western Ukraine . He and his family were resettled with the Wolhynien Germans in 1940 . He left Volhynia and went to the German Empire . At the age of 76 he died in Dresden. With great material expenditure and in many ways he worked as a benefactor towards the Ukrainian people. In Ukraine it is therefore not forgotten to this day.
See also
Web links
- Caroline Milow: The Ukrainian Question 1917–1923 in the Tension Area of European Diplomacy . Harrassowitz 2002 (GoogleBooks)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steinheil, Theodor (wolhynien.de)
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hermann Rudolf Alexander Steinheil 1841-1892. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
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SURNAME | Steinheil, Theodor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinheil, Theodor von; Штайнгайль, Теодор фон (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German scientist and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1870 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1946 |
Place of death | Dresden |