Leopold von Ledebur (General)

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Leopold Ernst Theodor Karl Felix Freiherr von Ledebur (born January 7, 1868 in Spandau , † October 13, 1951 in Hanover ) was a German infantry general .

Life

family

Leopold was a son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Heinrich von Ledebur (1832-1912) and his wife Frieda, née Freiin von Gersdorff . Ledebur married Anna von Jagow on September 21, 1895 in Pollitz .

Military career

Ledebur attended the cadet schools in Potsdam and Lichterfelde . He then joined the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army on March 22, 1888 as a Second Lieutenant . Promoted to prime lieutenant at the end of January 1895 , he served as regimental adjutant until 1899.

When the First World War broke out , he was in command of the 2nd Battalion of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment No. 91 . Ledebur was wounded on August 29, 1914 and, after staying in the hospital and recovering from health, was transferred to the 1st Replacement Battalion of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment 91 two months later. From January 19, 1915 he acted as commander of the von Voigts infantry regiment -Rhetz ”(3rd Hannoversches) No. 79 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel shortly afterwards on January 27, 1915 . After Ledebur had become a colonel on February 25, 1918 , he was appointed commander of the 102nd Reserve Infantry Brigade with effect from July 27, 1918.

He retained this command beyond the end of the war until January 17, 1919 and then took over the Infantry Regiment No. 91 in the same function and, five months later, the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 19. He was then from September 27, 1920 to 2 August 1921 Commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment . On August 3, 1921 Ledebur was appointed commander of Breslau and as such he became major general on September 28, 1921 . On March 17, 1924, he was promoted to lieutenant general. As such, he was commander of the 6th Division and commander in Military District VI in Münster . On February 29, 1928 Ledebur was retired from military service while being promoted to General of the Infantry.

He was the leader of the Comradeship Association of the former 79ers and as such was involved in raising funds for the construction of the war memorial on Galgenberg in Hildesheim.

Ledebur was granted permission to wear the uniform of the 16th Infantry Regiment on April 20, 1937.

The Ledebur barracks in Hildesheim was named after him.

Awards

literature

  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2003. ISBN 3-7648-2516-2 . Pp. 320-321.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freiherr von Bock: list of the officers' corps of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot June 19, 1813– May 15, 1913. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, p. 223.
  2. ↑ Barbara Thimm: Am Galgenberg, a war memorial. in: Herbert Reyer (editor): Traces of National Socialism in Hildesheim. = Sources and documentation on the city history of Hildesheim Volume 9, Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-8067-8503-1 , p. 56.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Reichswehr Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1925, p. 110.
  4. ↑ Unless otherwise stated: http://www.ledebur.de/Kaserne/index.html , last accessed on February 17, 2008 at 2:50 am
personal data
SURNAME Ledebur, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ledebur, Leopold Ernst Theodor Karl Felix Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Spandau
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1951
Place of death Hanover