Thomas Wilhelm Greiffenhagen (19 November 1821 – 28 December 1890) was a

Baltic German Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...

journalist and politician who was the mayor of Reval (now

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

) from June 1883 to August 1885. The son of Germans from

Schleswig The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...

and East Prussia, he studied jurisprudence at what is now the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

in Dorpat (modern-day Tartu), as well as in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

, and

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. He was one of the editors of the German-language magazine

Revalsche Zeitung ''Revalsche Zeitung'' was a daily German language newspaper published in Tallinn, Estonia. The paper was launched in 1860 by Wilhelm Greiffenhagen and . The first editor-in-chief was Friedrich Nikolai Russow, who served in the post until 1863. Th ...

, Estonia's first political newspaper, and was its editor-in-chief from 1864 to 1867. He was the mayor of Reval from June 1883 to August 1885, being disposed of by the governor of the

Governorate of Estonia The Governorate of Estonia, also known as the Governorate of Esthonia (Pre-reformed rus, Эстля́ндская губе́рнія, r=Estlyandskaya guberniya); et, Eestimaa kubermang was a governorate in the Baltic region, along with the ...

, Mikhail Shakhovskoy-Glebov-Strezhnev, after refusing to use the Russian language in official correspondence. He called for greater political participation of the Estonian peasants in the political decision-making process and thus opposed the influential circles of the Estonian Knighthood. He was succeeded by Viktor von Maydell. One of his sons, , was a prominent historian, archivist and music critic.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Greiffenhagen, Wilhelm 1821 births 1890 deaths Baltic-German people Estonian journalists People from Arkhangelsk Politicians from Tallinn Mayors of Tallinn Revalsche Zeitung editors

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