Count Peter Essen was a Baltic German General of the Infantry in 1819 and a count (1833). He belongs to the bourgeois Essen family from Pärnu. Essen's only daughter, Alexandrine Essen (1816–1868), married count Pontus von Stenbock-Fermor (1806–1866) in 1835, at which point they began using the joint name Essen-Stenbock-Fermor.
- Occupation
- politician, military personnel
- Position held
- member of the State Council of the Russian Empire
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- August 11, 1772
- Died
- September 23, 1844
