Ludwig von Lüder

Ludwig von^[1] Lüder (February 4, 1795 – March 6, 1862) was a Bavarian Major General. He was War Minister under Maximilian II of Bavaria for two times.

Biography

Lüder was born in the district of Kusel. He took part in the campaigns of the Bavarian army from 1813 to 1815. He was advanced to an Oberleutnant in 1818, to a Captain in 1827, and was inspector of the artillery troops from 1832 to 1836. In 1838 he became corps adjutant in the Generalquartiermeister staff, and in 1842 he became head of artillery division in the Bavarian war ministry. He was advanced to an Oberstleutnant in 1844, and four years later to the rank of an Oberst. In 1848 he became Major General and commander in chief of the Munich garrison. After his period as war minister from May 29, 1849 to March 25, 1855, Lüder served again as commander in chief of Munich for a short time, before he was war minister for a second time after April 13, 1859. On June 12, 1861, he was retired at his own request. He died in Munich the following year.^[2]

References and notes

1. In German personal names, von is a preposition which approximately means of or from and usually denotes some sort of nobility. While von (always lower case) is part of the family name or territorial designation, not a first or middle name, if the noble is referred to by surname alone in English, use Schiller or Clausewitz or Goethe, not von Schiller, etc.
2. Lüder, Ludwig von, House of the Bavarian history (HdBG).