Viktor Karl Konrad Wilhelm von Wahl (; 1840–1915) was a Russian politician and general of Baltic German descent who served as the mayor of St. Petersburg and the governor of Vilna Governorate.
Life He came from the Wahl family, which belonged to the Baltic German nobility and 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.
Wahl became the governor of Vilna Governorate 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 May Day parade.Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish; Dovid Katz; Basic Books; 2007; p. 260 That same year, a Bundist worker, Hirsh Lekert, 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 Order of Prince Danilo I and a number of other decorations.
Notes
References
Sources 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