Paul Andreas von Rennenkampff
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(in present-day Helme, Valga County, Estonia)
Russian EmpirePaul Andreas von Rennenkampff | |
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 Lieutenant-General Paul Andreas Edler von Rennenkampff, c. 1855. | |
| Born | 9 March [O.S. 26 February] 1790 Helmet Manor, Helmet, Kreis Fellin, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (in present-day Helme, Valga County, Estonia) |
| Died | 8 December [O.S. 26 November] 1857 or 26 December [O.S. 14] 1857 (aged 67) |
| Buried | |
| Allegiance | Russian Empire |
| Branch |  Imperial Russian Army |
| Service years | 1812-1846 1849-1857 |
| Rank |  Lieutenant-General |
| Commands | 1st Infantry Division 19th Infantry Division[1] |
| Conflicts | |
| Children | 1 child (debated) |
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.
Origin
Paul Andreas Edler von Rennenkampff was born on 9 March [O.S. 26 February] 1790 in the Helme Manor (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]
