Viktor Karl Konrad Wilhelm von Wahl (russian: Ви́ктор Вильге́льмович Ва́ль, Viktor Vil’gel’movich Val’; 1840 – 1915) was a

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general, mayor of

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, and governor of

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. He came from Baltic German noble Wahl family, which was a branch of the Scottish MacDowall clan. Von Wahl had also been a director of the Kseniinsky 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

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parade.''Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish''
Dovid Katz; Basic Books; 2007; p. 260 That same year, a Bundist worker,

Hirsh Lekert Hirsh Lekert (born 1880 in Onuškis, in the Troksky Uyezd of Vilna GovernorateNachman Ben-Yehuda, "Political assassinations by Jews: a rhetorical device for justice", SUNY Press, 1993, pg. 106/ref> died June 10, 1902 in VilniusJeffrey S. Gurock, " ...

, 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. He was awarded the

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and a number of other decorations.

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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 * Klingspor, Carl Arvid. ''Baltic heraldic coat of arms all, belonging to the knighthoods of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel noble families.''

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(1882) 1840 births 1915 deaths People from the Governorate of Livonia Antisemitism in Lithuania Baltic-German people Imperial Russian Army generals Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Russian people of the January Uprising Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes Mayors of places in the Russian Empire {{Russia-bio-stub