Bernard Guillaume Roediger died in Seville, Spain, on 1st April, 1951, at the age of 56.
Of Swiss nationality, he was educated at the International College of La Chatelaine in Geneva, founded by his grandfather and later converted into the International Labour Office. After studying for a few months at the University of Karlsruhe he was employed as a pupil at the Rio Tinto Co., Ltd., Huelva, Spain, two years later becoming underground manager at the Sultana-San Raphael copper mines in Cala (Huelva) under the direction of his father. Work at these mines was suspended in 1921, and from then until 1925 Mr. Roediger was engaged in prospecting and investigations at his father’s mining properties in the Cala-Arroyomolinos district.
From 1925 to 1926 he worked on the translation from Spanish into English of the greater part of the technical papers submitted at the XIV International Geological Congress held in Madrid. He resumed his post as underground manager at the Sultana-San Raphael mines in 1927, where he remained until 1933. From that time until his death he was in partnership at Seville with his brother, Mr. G.H.A. Roediger, A.M.I.M.M., quarrying limestone and quartz.
Mr. B.G. Roediger was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1933.
Vol. 61, Trans I.M.M., 1951-52, p.184
