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Rödl or "'Roedl is aGerman surname .Today, many people bearing this surname are found in
Germany ,Austria , theUSA , andCanada . Numerous Roedls who lived in theSudetenland prior to World War 2 were expelled by the Czech government pursuant to theBeneš decrees . Under these laws of the postwar Czech government, ethnic Germans who had lived in the Sudetenland for centuries were expelled without compensation.The etymology of the name Roedl is unknown. Historical records of the imperial
Habsburg court in Vienna show several enoblements of people with the surname Roedl.According to researchers at the
Austro Archiv , an Austrian genealogy and heraldry website, the following Roedls were ennobled:The brothers Johann Lucas Roedl and Johann Gottfried Roedl, were ennobled on
May 9 1642 . Johann Lucas was a county government official and Johann Gottfried was a military registrar in charge of maintaining records of men liable for military duty.Carl Laurenz Roedl, a civil service attorney in Eger, was knighted on
November 12 1791 , and given the privilege of using the title of Edle von Roedl. It is unknown if the title has survived into the 21st century. Under the customs of theAustrian nobility , the title can only pass to direct male descendants of the grantee.Johannes Rietstap 's Armorial shows the arms granted to Carl Laurenz Roedl, a field of blue with a silver triangle touching the top border of the shield. The sides of the triangle are gently convex.Beaver Dam, Wisconsin , may have the largest concentration of Roedls in the United States. A search of the telephone directory there showed over thirty listings, and also a street named Roedl Court. They are also numerous in the German state of Bavaria.Famous Roedls
* Bernd Roedl, founder of
Rödl & Partner , a prominent international audit firm based in Germany
*Henrik Roedl (born 1969), played basketball for the Chapel Hill "Tar Heels"
*Josef Roedl , a Bavarian movie director
* Jason Roedl, Musician
* Karl-Otto Roedl, prominent German architect based in Böblingen, Germany
*Ludwig Rödl (1907-1970), German chess master
*Manuel Rödl (* 23. September 1982), österreichischer Fußballspieler
*Ulrike Roedl , also an architect
* Thomas Roedl, a California mountaineer and outdoorsman
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