Wilhelm Roeder of Diersburg

Wilhelm Ludwig Philipp Eberhard Edgar Freiherr Roeder von Diersburg (born May 4, 1832 in Karlsruhe , † April 13, 1909 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Prussian infantry general and president of the Baden Military Association.

Life

origin

Wilhelm was a son of the Baden Lieutenant General Philipp Roeder von Diersburg (1801–1864) and his wife Adelheid Friederike, née Baur von Eysseneck (1806–1886). His younger brothers Karl (1840–1916) and Ferdinand (1848–1926) also embarked on a military career and advanced to become generals.

Military career

Roeder attended the Lyceum in Karlsruhe and Freiburg. On April 11, 1848, he joined the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Hereditary Grand Duke" of the Baden Army as a musketeer, which was commanded by his father. In August he moved to Holstein as part of a mixed brigade on the occasion of the war against Denmark . Due to the Malmö Treaty , however, there was no longer any fighting and Roeder quickly returned to Baden, as the Struve Putsch had broken out in his home country in the meantime . After arriving at the Freiburg garrison, he took part in forays into the Oberland and from January to April 1849 attended the war school in Karlsruhe as an officer candidate . Due to the mutiny that broke out on May 13, 1849 , Roeder fled to Altbreisach at risk of death , where the officers of his regiment gathered. With the flight of Grand Duke Leopold and his ministers, the Baden army was dissolved and the constitutional power was suspended when the provisional government took possession of it. Since Roeder did not want to make common cause with the revolutionaries, he joined the Austrian service in June 1849 with the permission of the Grand Duke.

He was initially employed as a cadet in the 17th Field Jäger Battalion in Vienna and took part in the campaign in Hungary . As a second lieutenant he fought in the infantry regiment "Archduke Wilhelm" No. 12 during the siege of Komorn in the battle near Szőny against the failing crew. In the following eight years Roeder changed his Hungarian, Transylvanian and Galician garrisons often . He was promoted to adjutant and worked as a teacher at the Brigade Cadet School in Lemberg . After serving in the General Staff for a year, he graduated from the Vienna War School by April 1859 and was promoted to first lieutenant . A little later he was promoted to captain in the general staff of the army designated under Archduke Albrecht on the occasion of the Sardinian War for the campaign on the Rhine. Roeder then joined the VI. Army corps under Feldmarschallleutnant von Baumgarten and remained in the province of Venice after the peace agreement . In 1862/63 he carried out a land survey in the province of Rovigo , as the redesign of the borders with Italy required new defensive measures. After his return to the General Staff in Vienna, Roeder worked in the war history department and worked out studies and information about the likely theater of war beyond the Bohemian ridge . During the mobilization on the occasion of the war against Prussia , Roeder was assigned to the cavalry brigade of Count Soltyk as a general staff officer in 1866 and took part in the fighting at Langenhof during the battle of Königgrätz . Then he was in the headquarters of the cavalry corps that should cover the retreat to Vienna.

In November 1866 he was transferred to Cracow as a general staff officer . He then worked for a year at the Landaufnahme in Slavonia and at the beginning of March 1868 was appointed Chief of Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division in Grosswardin . However, Roeder did not take up this position because he had submitted his departure for family reasons . He returned to Baden on May 14, 1868, and was employed as a captain and company commander in the Leib Grenadier Regiment . A year later, he was promoted to major and was transferred to the 5th Infantry Regiment in Freiburg as battalion commander . Roeder led the 2nd battalion in 1870/71 in the war against France in the battles near Wörth and on the Lisaine , during the siege of Strasbourg and the battles near Colmar , Anould , on the Ognon , near Dijon , Saint-Jean-de-Losne , Volksay, Autun , Châteauneuf and Villersexel . In addition to both classes of the Iron Cross, he received the Knight's Cross of the Military Karl Friedrich Order of Merit for his behavior .

After the peace treaty and as a result of the military convention , Roeder was accepted into the Association of the Prussian Army on July 15, 1871, with a patent from July 19, 1869 . He was initially aggregated to the General Staff and assigned to the Grand General Staff before being ranks in early October 1871. In mid-November 1874 he was transferred to Magdeburg to the General Staff of the IV Army Corps . Roeder was promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1874 , became chief of the general staff of the VII Army Corps in Münster on October 27, 1876, and was promoted to colonel in this position in mid-October 1877 . As such, he was from January 14, 1879 to June 13, 1883 commander of the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment No. 111 in Rastatt . Subsequently, he was entrusted with the command of the 55th Infantry Brigade in Karlsruhe under position à la suite of his regiment and on August 3, 1883, as major general, was appointed commander of this brigade . With his promotion to Lieutenant General Roeder was given command of the 3rd Division stationed in Stettin on July 7, 1888 , until he was finally put on disposition with the statutory pension in approval of his resignation request, conferring the character of General of the Infantry .

Civil life

After his farewell, the Grand Duke appointed him to the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly in 1891 , to which Roeder was a member until 1904. In addition, on August 30, 1892, he appointed him President of the Baden Military Association. During his presidency, the number of members doubled to around 118,000. For health reasons, Roeder resigned from his post after ten years in office and was appointed honorary president. He also served as a member of the board of directors of the Evangelical Monastery in Freiburg. Roeder has received several awards for his work. In September 1892 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen , in mid-September 1899 the Order of the Red Eagle First Class with Oak Leaves and in June 1902 the Grand Cross of the Order of Berthold the First .

He died of a stroke, was buried in Freiburg and later transferred to Diersburg .

family

Roeder had married Auguste Freiin von Lersner (1846-1936) on October 12, 1871 in Frankfurt am Main . The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 10, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1942], DNB 986919810 , pp. 324-327, no. 3242.
• Ferdinand von Beck: Wilhelm Freiherr Roeder von Diersburg. In: Baden biographies . VI. Part: 1901-1910. Heidelberg 1935, pp. 756–761 online at the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume XIV from January 1 to December 31, 1909, Verlag Georg Reimer, Berlin 1912, pp. 118–123.