| Paul Andreas von Rennenkampff | |
| Honorific Prefix: | Edler |
| Birth Place: | Helmet Manor, Helmet, Kreis Fellin, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (in present-day Helme, Valga County, Estonia) |
| Death Date: | or (aged 67) |
| Death Place: | St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Placeofburial: | Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery |
| Branch: | Imperial Russian Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1812-1846 1849-1857 |
| Rank: | Lieutenant-General |
| Commands: | 1st Infantry Division 19th Infantry Division[1] |
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| Children: | 1 child (debated) |
Paul Andreas Edler von Rennenkampff (Russian: Па́вел Я́ковлевич Ренненка́мпф, tr. ; or) was a Baltic German nobleman, military commander and Statesman in the service of the Imperial Russian Army. Rennenkampff was noted for his distinguished roles during the Suppression of the South Ossetians in 1830 and the Crimean War, especially during the Siege of Sevastopol.
See main article: Rennenkampff.
Paul Andreas Edler von Rennenkampff was born on in the (German: Schloss Helmet) at Helmet in the Governorate of Livonia (present-day Helme, Estonia), to Jakob Johann von Rennenkampff and Elizabeth Dorothea von Anrep. The Rennenkampffs was of Westphalian origin and was originated in Osnabrück. He was the great-uncle of the famed World War I general Paul von Rennenkampf.
As part of a wealthy noble family, Rennenkampff had a lot of siblings, including his older brothers Karl Jakob Alexander von Rennenkampff (1783-1854), a writer, captain and chamberlain in Holstein-Oldenburg, and Gustav Reinhold Georg (1784-1869), an army officer in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, politician and economist. In 1832, Rennenkampff married Anna Maria (1808-1881), they had one child, Johann Paul Alexander von Rennenkampff (1836-1838). Although some sources claimed that Rennenkampff had another child named Nikolaus Jakob Otto von Rennenkampff, but that was never confirmed. But either way, even if both children existed, neither of them survived through childhood.
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