Eduard von Stackelberg

Marriage In 1896 in St. Petersburg, Eduard von Stackelberg married Elisabeth (Else) Marie von Sievers (vt. Sivers). They had three children: Nicolai Mark Otto August von Stackelberg (1896-1971), Brigitte, and Elisabeth. married the brother of the chemist Andreas von Antropoff (1878-1956). Eduard's son Mark von Stackelberg studied chemistry with his uncle Andreas von Antropoff, completing his dissertation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, and co-authoring an extensive discussion of the periodic table in the Atlas der physikalischen und anorganischen Chemie ("Atlas of physical and inorganic chemistry; The properties of the elements and their connections", 1929). Mark von Stackelberg later taught at the University of Bonn, working with polarography and voltammetry.

Land and politics As a landowner, Eduard Baron Stackelberg held the manors of Sutlem, Limmat and Mäeküla (Mähküll, ) (now Sutlema, Lümandu and Mäeküla, Rapla County, Estonia) in Kreis Harrien. He was a proponent of Baltic German patriotism and a leader of the Baltic Constitutional Party.

Eduard von Stackelberg served as secretary of the Estonian Knighthood from 1899 to 1911 and served as deputy chief captain of the knighthood from 1912 to 1918. The association promoted a pan-Baltic organization, in sympathy with pan-Germanic ideals, while emphasizing that it still supported the Russian Tsar and constitution.

From 1915 to 1917, during World War I, Stackelberg and his family were sent to Jeniseisk in Siberia by the Tsarists. They were exiled for their pro-German political position. Stackelberg remained in Siberia until the 1917 revolution, when he was allowed to return to Estonia. He quarreled severely with Count Hermann von Keyserling, leader of a more cosmopolitan group of exiled Baltic Germans. After the signing of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, which allowed deportees to return, he moved to Germany, where his wife still owned land in Lochen. As of autumn 1918, Eduard von Stackelberg lived in Upper Bavaria near the outskirts of Munich.

Eduard von Stackelberg died in Munich on 7 April 1943.