Viktor von Wahl
Victor Karl Konrad Wilhelm von[1] Wahl (Russian: Ви́ктор Вильге́льмович (фон) Ва́ль, Viktor Vilgelmovich (von) Val; 1840-1915) was an Baltic German general, mayor of St. Petersburg, and governor of Vilnius. He came from Baltic German aristocracy. Von Wahl had also been a director of the Xenia Institute, an exclusive school for aristocratic women.
Von Wahl became the governor of Vilna in the autumn of 1901. In 1902, he ordered the arrest and flogging of a number of Jewish and Polish workers who had taken part in a May Day parade.[2] That same year, a Bundist worker, Hirsh Lekert, unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate him, wounding him in the leg and arm. Lekert was tried by military court, sentenced to death and executed.
Von Wahl became a member of the State Council in 1903, and held the title of "Assistant Minister of the Interior and Commander of the Gendarme Corps." after 1902.
Notes
- ^ In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means of or from and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by his last name, use Schiller, Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.
- ^ Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish; Dovid Katz; Basic Books; 2007; p. 260
References
- V.I. Gurko. Features and Figures of the Past; Government and Opinion in the Reign of Nicholas II
- Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life Before World War II; Hirsz Abramowicz, Eva Zeitlin Dobkin, Dina Abramowicz, Jeffrey Shandler, David E. Fishman, Yivo; Institute for Jewish Research; Wayne State University Press; 1999; p. 132
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