August von Roggenbach

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Franz Xaver August Freiherr von Roggenbach (born February 20, 1798 in Schopfheim , † April 7, 1854 in Karlsruhe ) rebuilt the Baden Army as Minister of War of the Grand Duchy of Baden (1849–1854) after the military uprising of 1849 .

Life

August von Roggenbach was the youngest son of the grand ducal Baden district director Adam Xaver von Roggenbach (1750-1830) from the old ministerial family of Roggenbach and Anna Maria Henrica, nee Freiin Reuttner von Weyl (1758-1829). In 1825 he married Maria Antonia Freiin von Andlaw-Birseck (1801–1866) a daughter of the Baden State Minister Conrad Karl Friedrich von Andlau-Birseck . The marriage remained childless. On March 23, 1803 he was accepted into the Order of Malta . With the incorporation of the Maltese Principality of Heitersheimin the Grand Duchy of Baden (1806), however, this life plan was blocked. From 1811 to 1814 he was in the grand ducal pagerie in Karlsruhe.

Military career

In 1814 he became a lieutenant in the "von Freystedt" dragoon regiment of the Baden Army and took part in the sieges of Kehl and Strasbourg in 1814/15 . He attended war school and was then employed as a regimental adjutant, and from 1831 as a brigade adjutant. In 1842 Roggenbach was then Major - from 1843 on the General Staff - and in 1847 Lieutenant Colonel . His area of ​​activity was primarily in the military administration. When the VIII. Army Corps of the German Confederation was set up, Roggenbach became adjutant to the corps commander, Prince Friedrich von Württemberg . During the Baden military uprising on May 13, 1849, Roggenbach accompanied Grand Duke Leopold on his escape from the royal seat of Karlsruhe .

The political career

In 1848 Roggenbach was appointed a member of the first chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly by the Grand Duke . On June 16, 1849 Roggenbach was promoted to colonel and appointed Baden Minister of War. He organized the reconstruction of the Baden army, which had been disbanded after the mutiny of 1849. After the defeated military uprising, Roggenbach was the highest judge in military matters and the last instance to decide on the execution of the death sentences against the insurgents. Roggenbach was also the main author of the service regulations for criminal companies issued in 1850.

He attached great importance to the reorganization without the involvement of Prussian officers in order not to obstruct the local officers' career opportunities for years. At the end of 1850 there was again a Baden army corps, which was initially housed in garrisons in Prussia. In connection with the state of war that was declared due to the constitutional conflict in Hesse (1850), the Baden troops were relocated to the Grand Duchy.

In 1852 the minister was promoted to major general and in 1853 to lieutenant general. After the newly established Baden Army Corps had been successfully inspected by the federal generals in autumn 1853, Roggenbach fell ill and died a few months later in April 1854 of a longstanding spinal cord disease.

In 1856, his widow became chief steward of the Grand Duchess Luise .

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  1. ↑ Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden: a newly edited nobility book. Baden-Baden, 1886, p. 35 Family table of the Barons von Andlaw-Birseck online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de  
  2. ^ Training institute for pages
  3. ↑ Law on the military labor penalty and the rules of service of the penal companies online in the Baden State Library
  4. ↑ s. Roggenbach p. 101
predecessor Office successor
Friedrich Hoffmann Minister of War of the Grand Duchy of Baden
1849–1854 		Damian Ludwig
personal data
SURNAME Roggenbach, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roggenbach, Franz Xaver August Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden Minister of War and reorganizer of the army
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Schopfheim
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1854
Place of death Karlsruhe