Max Ludwig (General)

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Max Ludwig after being appointed General of the Artillery (1929)

Max Heinrich Ludwig (born March 26, 1871 in Sangerhausen , † January 28, 1961 in Gotha ) was a German officer , most recently general of the artillery and from 1926 to 1929 head of the Army Weapons Office .

Life

Ludwig joined the Lower Saxon Foot Artillery Regiment No. 10 in Strasbourg on April 1, 1891 as a flag junior and was promoted to lieutenant on June 18, 1892 . On October 18, 1892 he was transferred to the Hohenzollern Foot Artillery Regiment No. 13 in Ulm . In October 1894 he was assigned to the artillery school in Berlin for further training . He stayed here until July 31, 1896, after which he was employed as an adjutant in his regiment. From October 1, 1898 to July 20, 1901, Ludwig was assigned to the Prussian War Academy and promoted to lieutenant on June 16, 1901 . From April 1, 1903, he was first assigned to the General Staff and was transferred here on March 20, 1906 while being promoted to captain . He then moved to the General Staff of the Metz Governorate on January 27, 1907, and was appointed battery chief in his regiment on April 3, 1909 . On April 1, 1912, he was reassigned to the General Staff, promoted to Major on October 1, 1912 , and assigned to the General Staff of the 33rd Division on March 10, 1914 .

With the outbreak of the First World War he took part with the division in the border battles on the Western Front and was on December 24, 1914 Ia at XXXIX. Reserve Corps . In the same function, Ludwig came to the Eastern Front on June 1, 1916, to Army Group Prince Leopold of Bavaria and was deployed here on September 5, 1916 after being transferred to Army Group Woyrsch . After his appointment on January 6, 1917 as Chief of the General Staff of the XXXVIII. Reserve Corps , he took over Army Group G in the same function on April 23, 1917 and, towards the end of the year, on December 11, the staff of General Command 59. There he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 27, 1918 , before returning to the XXXVIII. Reserve Corps was deployed. His last employment in the First World War he found on September 27, 1918 as Chief of the General Staff of the XXI. Army Corps .

After the end of the war, Ludwig was initially chief of the general staff of the Graudenz governorate and from October 1, 1919 chief of the general staff of the military district command II in Stettin, before he was appointed chief of the general staff of the Königsberg fortress on March 28, 1920 . Here he was promoted to colonel on December 18, 1920 and, after his takeover in the Reichswehr, was appointed commander of the Königsberg Fortress on May 1, 1921. On July 1, 1923, Ludwig moved to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin, where he took over the post of Inspector of the pioneers and the fortresses (In 5). As such, he became major general on February 1, 1925 . On March 1, 1926, he was appointed head of the Army Weapons Office in the Reichswehr Ministry and on November 1, 1927, he was promoted to Lieutenant General .

Ludwig was retired from the army on May 31, 1929 , while at the same time being promoted to general of the artillery . During his retirement he worked as a military writer a. a. worked as chief editor of the "Wehrtechnischen monthly books" at the publishing house ES Mittler & Sohn . From 1932 he lived in Thal ( Thuringia ), where his grave is also located in the park of the "Felseneck House". Ludwig was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in the GDR .

The politician and professional officer Günther Ludwig was his son.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Moltke's strategy - a system of helping hands, 1901, military weekly paper , 86th year, no.114
  • Tactical considerations about the attack on fortified field positions, supplement to the military weekly paper, 8th year, issue 1903.
  • The fortress in the wars of Napoleon and modern times, 1905. Military weekly paper, 90th year, No. 23
  • History of the Hohenzollern foot artillery regiment No. 13, 1905, book, ... pages, self-published by the regiment
  • Outpost in the fortress wars, 1910, military weekly, 95th year, nos. 71 and 72
  • The Balkan War 1912/13, 1914, war history individual writings, special reprint in the quarterly booklets for troop leadership and military studies, published by the Great General Staff, booklet 50 (160 pages, 6 maps, 8 view sketches)
  • A look back at the ammunition supply of the field army in the World War, special reprint in " Military Science Review " 1941, issue 4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A former general on the referendum . In: Neue Zeit , June 2, 1951, p. 5.
  2. ^ Günther, Ludwig In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 199.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1925, p. 111

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personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludwig, Max Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangerhausen
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1961
Place of death Gotha