Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern
Baron Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern (born December 8, 1776 in Rasik , Estonia Governorate , † January 21, 1858 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German-Baltic landowner and officer in the Russian service.
Life
Löwenstern was the second born son and third of ten children of the Baltic German politician Baron Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern and his wife Hedwig, née Staël von Holstein . Georg Heinrich von Löwenstern and Johann Peter Eduard von Löwenstern were his younger brothers.
Löwenstern entered Russian service in 1794 as a sergeant in the Semenovskoye bodyguard regiment and was promoted to captain in 1795 . Since 1798 squadron chief , he resigned from the military for the first time in 1804, but was soon reactivated in the course of the coalition wars. 1812 was a major adjutant to Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly . When he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, he was appointed adjutant to Mikhail Illarionowitsch Kutuzov and was awarded the Pour le Mérite in 1813 . As a colonel, Baron Löwenstern was passed a second time in 1819 and became a member of the Russian State Council . However, he returned to the Russian military in 1826 and was still active as a major general until his final farewell in 1834. After that he spent his retirement in St. Petersburg.
He owned the Rasik and Campen estates in Livonia . Since 1804 he was with Natalie, geb. Countess Tiesenhausen married, who died in Vienna in 1809. In 1821 he married Sophia Obreskow, a daughter of the Russian Lieutenant General Michael Obreskow, in St. Petersburg. The two children from the first marriage died early, the second marriage had two sons and two daughters.
Awards
- 1812: Order of St. Vladimir (for the Battle of Borodino )
- 1813: Order of the Sword (for the occupation of Bernburg )
- 1813: Russian Order of Saint Anna 2nd class (for the occupation of Göttingen )
- September 6, 1813: Pour le Mérite
- December 18, 1813: Russian Order of St. George , 4th grade
Fonts
- Friedrich von Smitt (ed.): Memories of a Livonian. 2 volumes, Leipzig and Heidelberg: Winter 1858, digitized volume 1, digitized volume 2.
- MH Weill (ed.): Mémoires du général-major russe baron de Löwenstern (1776–1858) publiés d'après le manuscrit original et annotés. Paris 1903 ( digitized ).
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods Part 2, 1.2: Estonia, Görlitz 1930, p. 124f ( digitized version )
- ↑ No. 2761 of the Order List
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwenstern, Woldemar Hermann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levenshtern, Vladimir Ivanovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Livonian landowner and officer in the Russian service |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rasik |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1858 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |