Hans von Ludwiger

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Hans von Ludwiger

Hans Gottlob Carl von Ludwiger (born November 13, 1877 in Stade , † March 7, 1966 in Lübeck ) was a German officer and politician ( DNVP ).

origin

His parents were the Prussian Colonel Moritz von Ludwiger (1846–1911) and his wife Klara, née Gerhardt (* 1853).

Life

After attending the preschool and secondary schools in Stade, Bremen and Mainz as well as the High School in 1896 at the high school in Grudziadz stepped Ludwiger as a cadet in the Fusilier Regiment "General-Field Marshal Count Blumenthal" (Magdeburgisches) no. 36 in Hall one. He became an officer in 1897, attended the War Academy in Berlin from 1906 to 1909 and then took over a two-year command of service in the General Staff . He then worked briefly as a senior adjutant and company commander . During the First World War he was first used as a captain company commander, then first general staff officer of a division and finally in the Great Headquarters and War Office. Most recently, as a major , he was head of department in the main headquarters and, as such, at the end of 1918, deputy chief of the general staff of the field railways.

Ludwiger had been general director and general agent of the Princely zu Solms'chen estates in Silesia since the spring of 1919 . From October 1922 to September 1932 he was the managing director of the Association of Central German Cane Sugar Factories in Halle. He then took over the management of the Federation of Sugar Factories and the mandatory beet growers in Germany.

family

On September 24, 1904, he married Erika Richter (* 1883), a daughter of the Prussian Major General Paul von Richter . The couple had several children:

  • Jürgen (* 1909)
  • Felix (* 1918)

MP

Ludwiger was a city councilor in Halle. In the Reichstag election in July 1932 he was elected to the German Reichstag , to which he belonged until November 1933. In parliament he represented the constituency of Liegnitz.

Honors

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Part B, 1922, p. 571.

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