Ludwig von Lüder

Ludwig von Lüder (born February 4, 1795 in Rennersbach near Kusel , † March 6, 1862 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lieutenant general and minister of war .

Life

origin

Ludwig comes from the old Hessian noble family von Lüder. His ancestors came to Bavaria via the Palatinate . His father Karl Freiherr von Lüder († 1829) had fought as a lieutenant in America and after his return became ducal chief assistant officer of Zweibrücken in Kusel. Three sisters survived the general, but the male line died out with him.

Military career

Lüder graduated from the cadet corps and was employed on September 15, 1812 as a second lieutenant in the artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army . As such, he took part in the fighting on October 31, 1813 at the Alte Brücke in Frankfurt am Main during the Wars of Liberation in 1813/15 and on February 18, 1814 in the battle of retreat near Donnemarie.

After the war, Lüder briefly came to the topographic office and then became adjutant to Karl von Zoller (1778–1849). He rose to first lieutenant in 1818 and captain in 1827 . In 1824 he came to Frankfurt am Main as an adjutant to the military representative. In 1832 Otto von Bayern was elected King of Greece. Lüder was given a two-year vacation and accompanied his childhood friend and artillery captain, who later became Lieutenant General Philipp von Brandt, to Athens . Lüder worked there in the 1st section of the War Ministry, organized the conversion of the Greek irregulars into an army and was appointed artillery corps commander in 1834. In 1835 he became a wing adjutant and commander of the Peloponnese . The Bavarian government granted him two more years of leave and then brought him back in 1836. Through King Otto he received the Golden Knight's Cross of the Order of the Redeemer .

After his return from Greece, Lüder was initially used in the 2nd Artillery Regiment . He then joined the Quartermaster General's Staff as a corps adjutant in 1838 and became an artillery officer in the War Ministry in 1842. Here he rose on October 18, 1844 to lieutenant colonel and in 1848 to colonel . On October 21, 1848 he became the commander of the capital and royal seat of Munich, and in this capacity on May 19, 1849 Major General.

On May 29, 1849, he became Bavarian Minister of War. On November 24, 1852, he was appointed owner of the 2nd Artillery Regiment and on October 11, 1853, Lieutenant General. He also received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from Saint Michael on January 1, 1854 . His merits include the first two medical companies as well as the expansion of the cadet corps in 1851 and an artillery and engineering training. In 1855 the German Confederation pushed for the fulfillment of the federal obligations, for which the minister was not approved the funds. Lüder then resigned on March 25, 1855.

He returned to his old post in October 1857 as commandant of Munich. He was already ill and received the Cross of Honor of the Order of Ludwig . At the urgent request of the king, he returned as minister on April 13, 1859. His predecessor Wilhelm von Manz had used up all reserves and even the rifle factory in Amberg was no longer usable. Lüder reorganized the military bureaucracy. Field hospitals and first aid stations, a 3rd medical company and the 4th artillery regiment were built under him . In addition, were magazines of the army replenished. On January 7, 1860, the king awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and on December 11, 1861, he was adopted.

He died unmarried on March 6, 1862 in Munich.

literature

• Wolf D. Gruner : The Bavarian War Ministers 1805–1885. In: Journal for Bavarian State History. 34, pp. 238-315 (1971).
• New Munich newspaper. 1862, 1-5, Nekrolog I. , Nekrolog II.
• Obituary. In: The collector. Volume 31, 1862, No. 40, p. 157 f.
• from Lüder. In: Dietrich Christoph von Rommel: History of Hessen. Volume 5, p. 414 f.
• Karl Bosl : Bosl's Bavarian biography. Volume XVI, Regensburg 1983, p. 496 f.

Web links

• Lüder. In: House of Bavarian History .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1848, p. 195.
2. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry. 1861, resignation of Lieutenant General von Lüder.

Remarks

1. ↑ In the area around Kusel there is no place with that name. It is possible that an illegible information in Gothic script was misinterpreted and it is the nearby Rammelsbach