Theodor Steinheil

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Theodor von 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

Horodok (Rivne)

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

The Turkish ambassador Rıfat Pascha and Theodor Steinheil at the funeral of General Field Marshal Hermann v. Eichhorn in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin (August 6, 1918)

Web links

  • Caroline Milow: The Ukrainian Question 1917–1923 in the Tension Area of ​​European Diplomacy . Harrassowitz 2002 (GoogleBooks)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steinheil, Theodor (wolhynien.de)
  2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hermann Rudolf Alexander Steinheil 1841-1892. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
personal data
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