Paul Friedrich Franz Kurt Rohde нар. 1882

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1882 народження: Erfurt, German Empire

1912 шлюб: German Empire, ♀ Charlotte Berbig (Rohde) [Berbig] нар. 1892 пом. 1984

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Kurt (Paul Friedrich Franz) Rohde was born in 1882 – quite randomly, as it were, in Erfurt – considering that the family constantly moved due to the father’s job as customs inspector during the prosperous era of Germany’s Gründerjahre. A military career seemed to be the logical continuation of mobile service as a family tradition, and was pursued by three Rohde sons; membership in Emperor Wilhelm II’s army was also considered as especially prestigious and career-enhancing. The oldest, described in reports as the lively and vivacious Kurt, attended cadet school in Wahlstatt and joined the cadet corps in Großlichterfelde near Berlin in 1899 as a corporal. It was here that he began to educate himself, especially in languages, and achieved the rank of military interpreter for Arabic, Japanese, French and Polish. In his daughter’s

opinion, Kurt Rohde lived “according to his military upbringing and in the best sense of old, Prussian tradition, a strict sense of duty, honest criticism. ‘Obstacles are meant to be overcome’”, was the 28-year-old’s motto. Rohde advanced his career in the imperial army and within the civically proud empire. In 1912 he was made first lieutenant and managed the climb to social success: his bride Charlotte (1892–1984) was the daughter of Karl August Richard Berbig (1859–1916) of Dresden, purveyor to the Royal Court and textile industrialist, and his wife Elisabeth Dreschke (1870–1945). Charlotte, described as being fond of art and riding, brought along as dowry the best connections to Dresden’s finest society, an extravagant marriage endowment (paid out in 1917), the Berbig’s fortune, and Italian and German 16th century paintings which hung in the parental villa on Chemnitzer Straße. The wedding march set the tone: “Peace and quiet he shuns / Exams, that’s the fun / That led him to Berlin”. However, this plan was thwarted by the outbreak of the First World War; Rohde was stationed in Wilhelmshaven and sent to the West Front in Flanders with the rank of a major.

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