Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Goedecke (1771 – 1857) was a German (Nassau) soldier and politician in Dutch-Luxembourg service.
At the start of the Waterloo Campaign the then Colonel Goedecke was in command of both the Nassau 2nd Regiment and the Netherlands 2nd Brigade, but on 15 June, the day hostilities commenced, he broke his leg.
[2] Goedecke attained the rank of Major General and acted in Luxembourg state service.
Luxembourg was at that time in personal union affiliated with the Netherlands.
Goedecke was appointed as supreme commander of the armed forces Luxembourg,[3] and was in 1831 included in the Government Council of the Governor of Luxembourg, Prince Bernhard (in Dutch service).