Alexander Riesenkampff, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Riesenkampff

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1888

Date of Death: 28-Dec-1940

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Alexander Riesenkampff

  • Karl Alexander Justus Riesenkampff (7 August 1888 – 28 December 1940) was a Baltic German lawyer and politician who was the second mayor of Tallinn from March 1918 to 13 November 1918, with Erhard Arnold Julius Dehio as lord mayor.
  • He graduated in 1910 from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu in jurisprudence.
  • He first worked in courts in Yaroslavl and Riga, before eventually becoming a lawyer in Tallinn.
  • He was the second mayor of Tallinn during the German occupation of Estonia during World War I, when the German Empire occupied most of newly independent Estonia, including Tallinn.
  • Riesenkampff resigned as second mayor after the end of the occupation, but was still active in Tallinn, becoming the curator for the Tallinn Cathedral School, as well as a member of the German Cultural Association.
  • He was succeeded as temporary deputy mayor by Aleksander Pallas.
  • Riesenkampff eventually left for Germany, moving to Berlin, where he was previously a journalist.
  • He died in 1940.

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