Education
Roon was born at Pleushagen, near Kolberg (Kołobrzeg), in Pomerania. His family was of Flemish origin, and had settled in Pomerania. His father, an officer of the Prussian army, died in poverty during the French occupation (see Napoleonic Wars), and the young Roon was brought up by his maternal grandmother in a country ravaged in the War of Liberation.
Roon entered the corps of cadets at Culm (Chełmno) in 1816, from where in 1818 he proceeded to the military school at Berlin, and in January 1821 received a commission in the 14th (3rd Pomeranian) regiment quartered at Stargard in Pomerania. In 1824 he went through the three years higher course of study at the General War School in Berlin (later called the Prussian Military Academy), where he improved his general education. In 1826 he was transferred to the 15th regiment at Minden.
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