Berthold Diedrich Römer

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Berthold Diedrich Römer (born May 27, 1797 in Oldenburg ; † June 2, 1858 ibid) was a German officer, most recently in the character of a colonel of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . In addition, from 1849 to 1857 he was Minister and Chairman of the Oldenburg Military Department .

Origin and career

Römer was born as the son of the chamber councilor and later chamber director Diedrich Christian Römer (1748-1819) in Oldenburg. In January 1814 he joined the newly established Oldenburg Infantry Regiment (later the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment No. 91 ), was appointed ensign in 1815 and lieutenant in 1817 . After training as an artillery officer, which he received from 1820 to 1822 with the Prussian Army , he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1828 , and to captain in 1830 , and received the post of adjutant brigade of the Oldenburg-Hanseatic Brigade . From March 1834 to April 1846 he was director of the Oldenburg military school before he was appointed major in May 1841 .

On April 26, 1849, he became chief of the staff of the Grand Duke and head of the newly created military department in the State Ministry in September 1848 . He thus de facto took over the office of Minister for Military Affairs in the first constitutional government under Prime Minister Johann Heinrich Jakob Schloifer . He kept this office in the following governments of Buttel and Rössing . In May 1851 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel , and in January 1854 he was also formally appointed minister.

On August 6, 1857, he was adopted with the character of a colonel and at the same time resigned from his ministerial office. His successor in office was Julius von Egloffstein , who had headed the military department from September 1848 to April 1849 before him. Above all, Römer was an officer to whom constitutional developments since 1848 remained fundamentally alien. In the first few years of his ministerial work, this resulted in difficulties for him, because he believed he had to carry out the Grand Duke's orders and thus got into conflict with the other members of the government.

From 1818 to 1833, Römer belonged to the Oldenburg Masonic lodge, Zum Goldenen Hirsch , and from 1842 to 1845 he was a member of the literary-sociable association. He remained unmarried and had no children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Emil Friedrich Freiherr von Egloffstein In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 167-168 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Römer, Berthold Diedrich Römer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonel and chairman of the Oldenburg military department
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1858
Place of death Oldenburg