Viktor Karl Jakob von Maydell (28 August 1838 – 27 January 1898),

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von

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, was a

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railway engineer and politician who was the mayor of Reval (now

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) from December 1885 to July 1894. von Maydell was born in what is now

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, but studied first in

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and then studied engineering at

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, where he graduated as an engineer. In Zurich, he was one of the founders of the Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig zu Bielefeld. After his return to Russia, he joined the railway administration and was the section engineer of the

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section of the Odessa Railway from 1863 to 1872 and the departmental engineer at the

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and Kremenchuk-

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. He oversaw the disbandment of the Magistracy of Reval in 1887. For health reasons, he left Reval and settled with his family in

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, where he died in January 1898. He was succeeded by Eduard Ernst Bätke.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maydell, Viktor von 1838 births 1898 deaths People from Haapsalu People from the Governorate of Estonia Baltic-German people Mayors of Tallinn Estonian engineers ETH Zurich alumni

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