Friedrich August von Röseler

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Friedrich August von Röseler (born April 18, 1665 in Zerbst , † May 31, 1738 in Geldern ) was a royal Prussian major general , head of the garrison regiment in Geldern and governor of Geldern.

He comes from a middle-class family from Zerbst . His father was Jakob Röseler , secret secretary on the Möllenbrücke in Zerbst. But on February 11, 1721 he was selected by Friedrich Wilhelm I to the peerage charged . One of his brothers is said to have become a Russian major general.

He first studied and became a doctor of law . But then he became an officer in the Prussian army and rose through the various ranks on November 29, 1709 to lieutenant colonel . He had previously been able to honor in the War of the Spanish Succession . At that time he was with Dragoon Regiment No. 1 . There he became a colonel on September 6, 1717. In 1722 he was appointed major general. In addition, he became governor of the Duchy of Geldern , the fortress there and the newly established garrison battalion. He also became chancellor of the local government with a salary of 900 thalers. He moved to the Rhine with the Prussian troops in 1734 before he died in Geldern on May 31, 1738.

family

He was married to a daughter of Hofrat Dewitz zu Insterburg . His son became a Prussian cavalryman , his daughter Charlotte Louise (* 1707 - 7 May 1779) married General Wolf Friedrich von Retzow . His son Joachim Friedrich (1704–1741) was a Prussian military man with the Dragoons and the bearer of the Pour le Mérite .

literature

  • Anton Balthasar König : Friedrich August von Röseler . In: Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service . tape 3 . Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 309 ( Friedrich August von Röseler at Wikisource [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class increases and acts of grace from 1600-1873. Berlin 1874.
  2. ↑ Jakob Christoph Beck , August Johann Buxtorf : Supplement to the Basel general historical lexicon , Volume 1, p. 826, digitized .
  3. ↑ Karl Friedrich Pauli : Life of great heroes of the present war , Volume 2, p. 247, digitized .
  4. ^ Carl von Eickstedt: Contributions to a newer Landbuch der Marken Brandenburg , p. 566, digitized .
personal data
SURNAME Röseler, Friedrich August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rösler, Friedrich August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian major general, governor of Geldern
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1738
Place of death Funds