Ludwig von Linden

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Ludwig Ernst Heinrich Franz Freiherr von Linden (born April 15, 1808 in Stuttgart , † December 23, 1889 in Thun ) was a German-Swiss military .

Life

Linden came from a noble family of Linden, originally from the Prince Diocese of Liège , and was the son of the Württemberg lawyer and politician Franz Josef Ignaz Freiherr von Linden . From 1827 to 1837 he served as a cavalry officer in the artillery in the Württemberg army with the rank of lieutenant . After marrying Marie Henriette von Tscharner, he moved to Switzerland. There he served from 1837 to 1848 as a cavalry instructor for the cantons of Bern , Solothurn and Vaud . In the years from 1843 to 1875 he served as an officer of the Federal General Staff , most recently as a colonel .

From 1850 to 1864 he was chief instructor of the cavalry before he was promoted to director of the Eidgenössische Pferderegieanstalt in Thun in 1864 . In the period from 1860 to 1866 he also served as commander of the cavalry division. He retired in 1887 .

The politicians Joseph Freiherr von Linden and Carl Freiherr von Linden were his brothers.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedrich Cast: South German noble hero. First volume, first section: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg. Gärtner, Stuttgart 1839, p. 268.
  2. ↑ Linden, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 588 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ See archive holdings of the State Archives Lucerne (last accessed on April 18, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Linden, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linden, Ludwig Ernst Heinrich Franz Freiherr von (full name); Linden, Ludwig Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss military
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1889
Place of death Tuna