Otto Reinhold Ludwig von Ungern-Sternberg
Born	( 1744-08-16 ) August 16, 1744 Vastse-Kuuste Parish
Died	August 14, 1811 (1811-08-14) (aged 66) Tobolsk

Otto Reinhold Ludwig von Ungern-Sternberg was a Polish chamberlain and envoy as well as Baltic German shipowner and landowner.

His parents were Reinhold Gustav von Ungern-Sternberg (* 1714; † 1787) and his wife Christina Sophia von Rosen (* 1719; † 1797). ^[1] Ungern studied at the University of Leipzig , traveled to Asia and the Indian Ocean . Out of concern that he could endanger the trade and transport monopoly of the British East India Company , he was arrested by the authorities of British India during the Seven Years' War . He was accused of espionage and deported to Europe.

He was chamberlain and envoy of Stanislaus II August Poniatowski to the Tsar Catherine the Great at Peterhof Palace . In 1781 he acquired the Gutshof Großenhof on Dago, ^[2] continued to be Lord at Neukusthof in Livonia as well as at Neuenhof, Hohenholm , Pardas and Putkas in Estonia . Ungern had the rank of Dutch captain. In 1802 he was arrested on charges of murdering Carl Johan Malmi, captain of the brig Morian. At trial he pleaded self-defense . He was convicted and exiled to Tobolsk . There he worked in administration during the reign of Emperor Alexander I .

Ungern had been married to Magdalene Charlotte von der Pahlen (* 1749; † 1824) since 1772, with whom he had four children.

In England he was posthumously declared a robber. ^{[3] [4]} Istvan Csekey scientifically investigated the accusation of piracy against Ungern in 1928 and conducted it ad absurdum . ^[5]

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