Not to be confused with Paul von Rennenkampf.

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

Main article: Rennenkampff

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 is a rank of nobility, not a first or middle name. The female 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

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Andreas_von_Rennenkampff
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