Wilhelm Greiffenhagen

Thomas Wilhelm Greiffenhagen (19 November 1821 – 28 December 1890)^[1] was a Baltic German journalist and politician who was the mayor of Reval (now Tallinn) from June 1883 to August 1885.

Preceded byAlexander Rudolf Karl von Uexküll

Succeeded byViktor von Maydell

Born(1821-11-21)21 November 1821

Arkhangelsk, Russian Empire

Died28 December 1890(1890-12-28) (aged 69)

Reval, Russian Empire (modern-day Tallinn, Estonia)

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Thomas Wilhelm Greiffenhagen
Wilhelm Greiffenhagen, photographed by Charles Borchardt [et].
Mayor of Tallinn
In office June 1883 – August 1885
Preceded by	Alexander Rudolf Karl von Uexküll
Succeeded by	Viktor von Maydell
Personal details
Born	(1821-11-21)21 November 1821 Arkhangelsk, Russian Empire
Died	28 December 1890(1890-12-28) (aged 69) Reval, Russian Empire (modern-day Tallinn, Estonia)

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The son of Germans from Schleswig and East Prussia, he studied jurisprudence at what is now the University of Tartu in Dorpat (modern-day Tartu), as well as in Bonn, Heidelberg, and Berlin. He was one of the editors of the German-language magazine Revalsche Zeitung, Estonia's first political newspaper, and was its editor-in-chief from 1864 to 1867. He was the mayor of Reval from June 1883 to August 1885, being disposed of by the governor of the Governorate of Estonia, Mikhail Shakhovskoy-Glebov-Strezhnev, after refusing to use the Russian language in official correspondence.^[2] He called for greater political participation of the Estonian peasants in the political decision-making process and thus opposed the influential circles of the Estonian Knighthood.^[3] He was succeeded by Viktor von Maydell. One of his sons, Otto Greiffenhagen [et], was a prominent historian, archivist and music critic.^[4]