Friedrich Wilhelm Roth

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Friedrich Wilhelm Roth (born February 9, 1787 in Brandenburg (Havel) , † February 13, 1862 in Kolberg ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

Origin and family

Friedrich Wilhelm was the son of the Brandenburg merchant Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Roth and Friederike Auguste Wilhelmine nee Fritzsche. He married Wilhelmine Karoline Hoffmann (1788–1857) in Neisse in 1815 . From the marriage two daughters and a son, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Roth (1815-1867), Colonel and Commander of Field Artillery Regiment No. 10 , emerged.

Military career

Roth began an officer career in the Prussian Army in 1804 as a bombardier in a field artillery head. He was a non-commissioned officer in 1806 and took part in the Fourth Coalition , in particular in the battles at Gadebusch, Sandau and Lübeck , where he was wounded, as well as in the defense of Kolberg . In 1809 he was Portepeefähnrich in the Brandenburg artillery brigade and in 1810 he was promoted to secondary lieutenant . In the Wars of Liberation he took part in the sieges of Stettin, Torgau ( Iron Cross II. Class), Wittenberg and the battles near Finkenwalde and Schönebeck. He was promoted to prime lieutenant in 1815 and to captain in the Silesian Artillery Brigade in 1816. In 1817 he was employed as an artillery officer from the square in Schweidnitz and in 1820 in the same function in Danzig . In 1828 he was the oldest captain in the 6th Artillery Brigade to receive the service cross . When he rose to major in 1829, he also became a department commander and in 1840 was promoted to a patented lieutenant colonel . The Red Eagle Order IV. Class was awarded to Roth in 1842, in the same year he was promoted to colonel with a patent. His departure with an annual pension of 1700 thalers and the character of major general he received in 1843.

Roth must have been an officer from the square in Breslau before 1834 and had been a member of the Natural Research Society in Danzig since 1825 .

He spent his twilight years first in Breslau and then in Kolberg.

publication

  • The defense of Kolberg in 1807 , Wroclaw in 1840.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurd Wolfgang von Schöning : Historical-biographical news on the history of the Brandenburg-Prussian artillery. Volume 3, Mittler , Berlin 1844, p. 525.
  2. ^ Statute of the Natural Research Society in Danzig , Danzig 1834, p. 22.