Paul Andreas von Rennenkampff


Paul Andreas von Rennenkampff
Lieutenant-General Paul Andreas Edler von Rennenkampff, c. 1855.
Born9 March [O.S. 26 February] 1790
Died8 December [O.S. 26 November] 1857 or 26 December [O.S. 14] 1857 (aged 67)
Buried
Allegiance Russian Empire
Branch Imperial Russian Army
Service years1812-1846
1849-1857
Rank Lieutenant-General
Commands1st Infantry Division
19th Infantry Division[1]
Conflicts
Children1 child (debated)
Coat of arms of the Rennenkampff family of 1728, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.[2]
The Helme Manor [et] (German: Schloss Helmet) at Helme, Estonia, where Rennenkampff was born, c. 2012.

Paul Andreas Edler[a] von Rennenkampff[b] (Russian: Па́вел Я́ковлевич Ренненка́мпф, tr. Pável Yákovlevich Rennenkámpf; 9 March [O.S. 26 February] 1790 – 8 December [O.S. 26 November] 1857 or 26 December [O.S. 14] 1857) was a Baltic German nobleman, military commander and Statesman in the service of the Imperial Russian Army. Rennenkampff was noted for his distinguished roles during the Suppression of the South Ossetians in 1830 and the Crimean War, especially during the Siege of Sevastopol.

Biography

Origin

Paul Andreas Edler von Rennenkampff was born on 9 March [O.S. 26 February] 1790 in the Helme Manor [et] (German: Schloss Helmet) at Helmet in the Governorate of Livonia (present-day Helme, Estonia), to Jakob Johann von Rennenkampff and Elizabeth Dorothea von Anrep. The Rennenkampffs was of Westphalian origin and was originated in Osnabrück. He was the great-uncle[4][5] of the famed World War I general Paul von Rennenkampf.

Family

As part of a wealthy noble family, Rennenkampff had a lot of siblings, including his older brothers Karl Jakob Alexander von Rennenkampff (1783-1854), a writer, captain and chamberlain in Holstein-Oldenburg, and Gustav Reinhold Georg (1784-1869), an army officer in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, politician and economist. In 1832, Rennenkampff married Anna Maria von Vegesack (1808-1881), they had one child, Johann Paul Alexander von Rennenkampff (1836-1838). Although some sources claimed that Rennenkampff had another child named Nikolaus Jakob Otto von Rennenkampff, but that was never confirmed. But either way, even if both children existed, neither of them survived through childhood.[5]

Honours and awards

Domestic

Foreign

Notes

  1. ^ Regarding personal names: Edler was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as a noble (one). Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Edle.
  2. ^ The spelling of his last name varies in different works between Rennenkampff, Rennenkampf, Remenkampe and Remmenkamp.[3]

References

  1. ^ RBS/BT/Rennenkampf, Pavel Yakovlevich
  2. ^ Klingspor 1882, pp. 90.
  3. ^ Transehe-Roseneck 1929, p. 776-779.
  4. ^ Stackelberg 1930, pp. 205.
  5. ^ a b Transehe-Roseneck 1929, p. 782.
  6. ^ [1] List of senior generals. Corrected on January 7, 1856. - SPb .: Military Printing House, 1856. pp. 275-276

Works cited