Aleksandr Roediger
Appearance
Alexander Roediger | |
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Alexander Kaulbars | |
Succeeded by | Viktor Kotelnikov |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 January 1854 [ Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 |
Alexander Roediger (or Rödiger) (
Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, served as a member of the Imperial Russian State Council, and was the Minister of War of the Russian Empire (1905–1909). He also briefly served as the Minister of War of the Principality of Bulgaria
(1883).
Biography
Origin
Born on 12 January [
Finland-Swedish noblewoman Elisabeth Charlotta von Schulmann, his father was a German who was working as a cadet school principal in Novgorod at the time of Alexander’s birth. His family was of Hessian
origin.
Career
Roediger graduate of the
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
were arrested.
References
- Out of My Past: Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov; Hoover War Library Publications Number 6, Stanford University Press, 1935.
- NEW RUSSIAN WAR MINISTER.; Gen. Ridiger Is Appointed to Succeed Gen. Sakharoff.
- PLOT TO KILL RUDIGER.; Police Discover Conspiracy to Murder Russian War Minister.