Dietrich von Roeder

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Dietrich Hermann von Roeder (born July 12, 1861 in Lübben , † December 5, 1945 in Potsdam ) was a German infantry general .

Life

origin

Dietrich came from an old soldier family and was the son of Andreas von Roeder (1834-1901) and his wife Elisabeth, born von Colmar (1836-1873). His grandfather was Major General Hermann von Roeder (1797–1857), his great-grandfather was Major General Heinrich von Roeder (1742–1821).

Military career

On April 8, 1882, Roeder joined the Emperor Franz Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 2 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior . There he was appointed ensign on November 16, 1882 and promoted to second lieutenant on September 11, 1883 . From November 1, 1888 to October 28, 1891 he served as an adjutant of the 2nd Battalion. When he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant , he was simultaneously transferred to the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 on January 27, 1892 . From here, Roeder was commanded for further training from October 1, 1892 to July 20, 1895 at the War Academy and subsequently to the 1st Sailor Artillery Department until September 30, 1895. After brief service in the troops, he was then assigned to the General Staff on April 1, 1896 , and transferred back to his main regiment on April 18, 1896, leaving this command. There he was promoted to captain on January 21, 1897, and as such shortly thereafter, on February 16, 1897, he was appointed company commander . Roeder held this post for the next five years. On April 18, 1903, he was transferred to Danzig as an adjutant at the General Command of the XVII. Army Corps . After Roeder had become major on January 27, 1905 , two days later he was appointed military advisor to Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia . On October 22, 1908, he was transferred to the Emperor Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 and was given leave of absence for one year. During this time Roeder was active as chairman of the prince's court . On September 17, 1909, then transferred him to Charlottenburg to the bar of the Queen Elizabeth Grenadier Guards Regiment third and took over on March 22, 1910 as commander of the Fusilier - Bataillon . Six months later, Roeder took over the role of military companion for Prince Joachim of Prussia , the emperor's youngest son, for the next three years . Meanwhile promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 27, 1912 , Roeder was then transferred to Weimar on October 1, 1913, to the staff of the infantry regiment "Grand Duke of Saxony" (5th Thuringian) No. 94 . At the same time as his promotion to colonel on March 22, 1914, he was appointed commander of the Emperor Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2, in which he had once started his military career.

First World War

With the outbreak of the First World War , his regiment mobilized and moved into neutral Belgium . Fighting broke out here for the first time on August 22 and 23, 1914, in the Battle of the Sambre near Auvelais . This was followed by the battle of St. Quentin and heavy fighting on the Petit Morin . After the withdrawal from the Marne , ordered by the Supreme Army Command , Roeder and his regiment were able to bring the advancing French to a standstill in his sector near Reims . During the Battle of Arras , Roeder was wounded in the leg by a shrapnel on October 6, 1914, but remained with his troops. After the Battle of Ypres , the regiment went into trench warfare. In the following years Roeder repeatedly represented the commander of the 4th Guard Infantry Brigade.

On February 23, 1915, he was then appointed commander of the 37th Infantry Brigade, which was then on the Aisne . At the end of April 1915, the brigade moved to the Eastern Front in Galicia , where they took part in the fighting after the battle of Gorlice-Tarnów . By the end of September 1915 the brigade advanced over the Bug to the Jasiolda . Then Roeder returned with his association to the Western Front and was able to thwart several attempts at breakthroughs by the French during the autumn battle in Champagne . In 1916 he fought again in the east a. a. on the Stochod during the Brusilov offensive . At the end of the year Roeder came back to the West. Here he fought in a row in the Champagne for the heights of Ripont, in the double battle Aisne-Champagne and then took part in the battles at Reims. For his services, Roeder was awarded the Red Eagle Order II. Class and promoted to Major General on June 18, 1917 . In September he was in heavy defensive battles in front of Verdun and in November 1917 around the strategically important height 344.

On February 8, 1918, appointed Roeder appointed commander of the Artois standing 3rd Guard Division . During the spring offensive , he successfully led his division in the breakthrough battle at Monchy-Cambrai and then at Bapaume . For these achievements he was submitted by his commanding General Arthur von Lindequist to the highest Prussian bravery award, the Pour le Mérite , which Roeder received on April 17, 1918.

In April 1918 the division moved to Flanders and was used in the Battle of the Kemmel , then went back to trench warfare and was pulled from the front to Lorraine at the end of May . After fighting at Reims and participating in the Battle of the Marne , fights followed before and in the Siegfriedstellung . Most recently, the division was part of the 3rd Army in defensive battles between Argonne and Maas and between the Aisne and Aire until the armistice .

post war period

After the end of the war, Roeder led his division back home, where it was demobilized and finally disbanded. He then took over the State Rifle Corps on January 2, 1919 and was also the commander of the 115th Division . With both associations he was involved in the suppression of numerous Spartacist uprisings in Berlin and central Germany .

With the takeover in the Reichswehr Roeder acted as Infantry Leader 4 in Magdeburg from October 18, 1919 and rose to Commander of the Reichswehr Brigade 4 on May 16, 1920 . After Roeder to on December 18, 1920 character than Lieutenant General had received, he left on December 31, 1920 from active duty.

Roeder received the character of General of the Infantry on August 27, 1939, the so-called Tannenberg Day.

family

Roeder married Ernestine von Polenz (1879–1959) in 1906. One of her sons, Wilhelm von Roeder (1907–1974), became a brigadier general in the Bundeswehr .

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 , pp. 131-133.
  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935, pp. 206-208.
  • Freiherr von Ledebur: Roeder. In: Genealogical handbook of noble houses. Row B, Volume 6 (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume 32). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1964, pp. 296-306.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Research Institute for War and Army History (Ed.): The World War 1914–1918. Volume 10: The operations of 1916. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1936, p. 542
  2. ↑ Occupation in the transitional army from May 16, 1920. Book II, Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Reichsdruckerei , Berlin 1920, p. 25
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps for 1914. Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 149
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Dietrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roeder, Dietrich Hermann von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebben
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1945
Place of death Potsdam