Karl von Roeder

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Karl Ferdinand Heinrich von Roeder (born July 28, 1787 in Pampitz , † July 19, 1856 in Peterswaldau ) was a Prussian lieutenant general and wing adjutant of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

Life

origin

His parents were the Prussian major general Heinrich von Roeder (1742-1831) and his second wife Sophie Henriette Christiane, née Trützschler von Falkenstein (1762-1838). Three other brothers Maximilian Eugen (1782–1844), Julius August Heinrich Edwin (1808–1889) and Friedrich Hermann (1797–1857) were also Prussian generals.

Military career

Born in Pampitz on the battlefield of Mollwitz , he stayed in his father's house in Grottkau until 1800. Roeder then went to the "von Grawert" infantry regiment , which was then stationed in Glatz and received the basics of his higher scientific military training at the war school in Berlin, which he visited from the winter of 1804 to 1805. The threatened war in 1805 initially interrupted these studies. When the army was mobilized, Roeder joined the staff of Lieutenant General von Grawert as an adjutant . During the war in 1806 Roeder was on the general staff of Prince Hohenlohe , took part in the Battle of Jena and was taken prisoner during the surrender of Prenzlau.

Roeder escaped, however, and on his escape he first got to Kolberg and, since it was already enclosed, to Rügen . There he joined the Freikorps "von Marwitz". After the Peace of Tilsit he came to Berlin as a garrison in 1808, but, characteristic of his way of thinking, took his leave as early as 1809 to fight Napoleon again in the Austrian service . But the unexpectedly rapid end of the Austrian war prevented this intention from being carried out. Since the Peace of Schönbrunn immediately afterwards seemed to put any prospect of a Prussian or German uprising in the distant future, Roeder devoted himself to his scientific education at the universities of Frankfurt an der Oder , Berlin and Heidelberg over the next few years . Here he was called by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. " To my people ". He followed the call, returned home and was re-employed as a prime lieutenant and adjutant to lieutenant general von York . In the battle of Großgörschen Roeder was so badly wounded that he lost his right eye forever as a result. But before he was completely cured, he rejoined the army at the end of the armistice and fought in the battles on the Katzbach , Möckern , Ligny , and Belle Alliance . For his courage and military prudence, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class for the Battle of the Katzbach and the Cross 1st Class for Belle Alliance.

After the war, in which three of his brothers were killed and two others were seriously wounded, Roeder was appointed as captain on November 29, 1816 to the crown prince's second adjutant and promoted to major in March of the following year . While maintaining this relationship followed on March 30, 1833 with the promotion to lieutenant colonel, his appointment as chief of the general staff of the VI. Army Corps . A year later Roeder took over the same post in the II Army Corps and on March 30, 1835 became a colonel . On March 30, 1838, he was appointed second, then on May 5, 1838 first adjutant to the Crown Prince. With his accession to the throne as the new King of Prussia, Roeder was appointed wing adjutant in 1840. In this position he worked until April 18, 1842. Then Roeder was due to illness with the statutory board for disposition made.

He then retired to his Gohlau estate near Breslau . On November 29, 1848 he received the character of Lieutenant General and in 1853 the Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class. Three years later on July 19, 1856, after a short sick bed, paralysis put an end to his life in Peterswaldau.

family

Roeder married Henriette Sophia Auguste Charlotte Countess von Bernstorff (1803-1850), a daughter of Joachim Frederik Bernstorff, in Berlin on September 3, 1822 . The following children were born from the marriage:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses. Volume 28, p. 241.
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses. Volume 43, p. 200.
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roeder, Karl Ferdinand Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general and adjutant wing of Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Pampitz
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1856
Place of death Peterswaldau