Viktor von Wahl

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.

In 1902, he ordered the arrest and flogging of a number of Jewish and Polish workers who had taken part in a May Day parade.

[3] That same year, a Bundist worker, Hirsh Lekert, unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate him, wounding him in the leg and arm.

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."

Viktor von Wahl in 1893.
Coat of arms of the Wahl family of 1796, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882. [ 1 ]