Adolf Loning

Adolf Loning was a German officer in the Spanish army and the author of a description of the classes, customs and traditions in Spain from 1830-1840, which is still important today .

The Spanish people . Original edition from 1844

Life

Loning writes that he was a captain in the Spanish army and a knight of the military order of St. Ferdinand. He traveled to Spain in early 1830 and in the summer of 1834 he joined the Carlist army under the leadership of Tomás de Zumalacárregui . "I was the first German who came to this camp" . Loning fought in the bloody clashes of Alegría de Álava and Venta de Echavarri on October 27 and 28, 1834 and was wounded in the Battle of Mendigorria (July 16, 1835) as a fighter in the Guias Battalion of Navarre . In the Expedición Real campaign , he received command of the 4th Company of the Foreign Battalion after the battle of Barbastro (July 2, 1837). After his excellent participation in the Battle of Villar de los Navarros (August 24, 1837), he was made captain. During the Battle of Peñacerrada (June 20-22, 1838) he held the Urizarra bastion . He says little more about himself.

Other Germans who fought for the Carlist in Spain were Goeben, Felix Fürst Lichnowsky and Rahden.

Fonts

• The Fueros of the Kingdom of Navarre and the Basque Provinces of Alava, Biscaya and Guipuzcoa . Helmingsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1843
• The Spanish people in their classes, customs and traditions with episodes from the Carlist Wars of Succession . Verlag der Hahnschen Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1844

literature

• August Karl von Goeben : Four years in Spain . Hanover 1841
• Wilhelm Baron von Rahden: From Spain's Civil War 1833-1840 . Berlin 1851
• Felix Lichnowsky : Memories from the years 1837, 1838 and 1839 . Frankfurt am Main 1841
• Antonio Pirala: Historia de la guerra civil y de los partidos liberal y carlista . 2nd Edition. Madrid 1868–1871