Rudolf von Roerdansz

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Rudolf Johann Friedrich Roerdansz , from 1887 von Roerdansz (born January 29, 1828 in Pless ; † August 9, 1892 in Klosters ) was a Prussian general of the artillery .

Life

origin

He was the son of the Prussian Prime Lieutenant Karl Heinrich Roerdansz (1793-1831) and his wife Marie Charlotte Sophie, née Pfaff (1808-1877). His father had acquired the order Pour le Mérite as a second lieutenant in the Silesian Uhlan Regiment during the Wars of Liberation on February 18, 1813 .

Military career

Roerdansz attended the community school in his hometown and then graduated from the cadet schools in Wahlstatt and Berlin . Subsequently, on May 27, 1845, he was transferred as a second lieutenant to the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Army in Koblenz . He soon changed arms and switched to artillery . In 1859 he was transferred to Berlin as a teacher at the United Artillery and Engineering School and as a member of the Artillery Examination Commission . In 1861 he worked as a teacher at the War Academy .

From April 6, 1872 to June 5, 1874 Roerdansz headed the United Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin.

On April 2, 1887, Roerdansz was appointed inspector general of the foot artillery , and on December 20, 1887, Emperor Wilhelm I raised him to the hereditary Prussian nobility for his long service . With the award of the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with Oak Leaves, Roerdansz was put up for disposal on April 8, 1890 with the statutory pension .

He died of a heart attack during a trip to Switzerland and was buried in Davos .

family

Roerdansz had married the pastor's daughter Maria Katharina Ward (1829-1860) on October 25, 1859 in Dover . She died shortly after giving birth to her first child. The son Henry Rudolf Hermann also died shortly afterwards. After her death, he married Ernestine Magdalena Rosa Weigelt (1842-1896) in Berlin on May 8, 1862. She was the daughter of Lieutenant General Gustav Weigelt (1819–1876). The marriage had three children:

  • Gustav Ernst Heinrich (* July 18, 1865 in Berlin; † December 1923 in Hamburg), Prussian major ⚭ 1885 Leontine Charlotte Kumberg (* December 16, 1863)
  • Heinrich Hugo Alwin (born March 12, 1865 in Berlin; † August 11, 1914), last Prussian major and battalion commander in the Fusilier Regiment "General-Field Marshal Prince Albrecht of Prussia" (Hannoversches) No. 73
  • Kathinka (Käthchen) Henriette (born October 27, 1867 in Erfurt), journalist and writer

Works

  • 1863, theory of war wagons, digitized
  • 1863, Balistics

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , pp. 23-25.
personal data
SURNAME Roerdansz, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roerdansz, Rudolf Johann Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleas
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1892
Place of death Monastery