Wahl (noble family)

[1] Around 1582, the Royal Scottish Officer and Captain Robert Albrecht MacDowall (1541–1641) emigrated from the more recent line of the house Makerstoun to Mecklenburg, Germany .

Possibly he was, as the Clan Chief Uchtred MacDowall, Laird of Garthland, involved in the well-known "Raid of Ruthven" in 1582, a failed Protestant uprising against the King Jacob / James VI, so that Robert Albrecht had to flee Scotland.

Jacob's half brother from his fathers marriage with Ursula von Stralendorff, was the royal Swedish Colonel of the Infantry, Axel Duwall (1595–1630) who represents the beginning of the German-Baltic Wahl family lineage.

[2] Axel Duwall participated in 1628, as a Swedish Lieutenant-Colonel on the successful defense of Stralsund, Germany against the Imperial troops of the Field Marshall Albrecht von Wallenstein.

[2] Joachim Adolf's son, Johann Georg (1682–1735), also fought as a Swedish Dragoon in the Livonian Regiment of General von Schlippenbach in the Great Northern War against Tsarist Russia.

The Baltic Germans of the Eastern Provinces were granted self-government and the continuation of their Lutheran religion by the Tsar Peter the Great and his successors.

[3] His son Carl Gustav von Wahl (1766–1825), became a successful entrepreneur, which led to the acquisition of several large estates in the Estonian part of Livonia around Oberpahlen (Kawast, Pajus, Kawa, Köppo and Tappik).

Estates and manor houses Until the expropriation of all German landowners by the newly founded republics of Estonia and Latvija in 1919/1920 the Wahl family owned the following estates and mansions: In Livonia: (Estonian district): Pajus with Luik, Addafer, Tappik with Toifer and Lane, Lustifer with Kalliküll, Surgefer, Wihelninenhof with Eduardshof and Karlswald, Neu Nursie, Quellenhof; (Latvijan district): Alt and Neu-Annenhof with Hermannshof.

All branches of the von Wahl family left Estonia and Latvia during the Second World War and emigrated to Germany, Spain, Canada, United States, Chile, and Australia.