Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
Politician
1790 – 1874
Who was Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg?
Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg was a Russian Field Marshal, and the Governor-General of Finland from 1855 to 1861. He was born in the Sangaste Castle, Livonia into a Baltic German noble family. He studied at the University of Dorpat and joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1812.
He was also the last Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland. He was crucial in crushing the Polish January Uprising and carrying out repressions and russification policies afterwards. Polish insurgents carried out an unsuccessful assassination attempt on him on 19 September 1863.
He was made a count in the Finnish House of Nobility in 1857, along with his adopted sons, as the 11th Finnish comital family.
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- Born
- May 27, 1790
Russian Empire - Nationality
- Russia
- Lived in
- Livonia
- Died
- Jan 18, 1874
Saint Petersburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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