Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach

Leopold von Gerlach

Leopold von Gerlach
Born 17 September 1790
Berlin, Prussia
Died 10 January 1861 (aged 70)
Berlin, Prussia
Allegiance Kingdom of Prussia Prussia
Service/branch Prussian Army

(Ludwig Friedrich) Leopold von Gerlach (1790, Berlin – 1861) was a Prussian army general, adjutant to Frederick William IV of Prussia and a Protestant conservative associate of Otto von Bismarck.[1]

Biography

Leopold von Gerlach was the son of Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach, Mayor of Berlin. He and his brother, Ludwig von Gerlach, formed the "Christian Germanic" circle to propagate the ideas of the Swiss jurist Karl Ludwig von Haller.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Agatha Ramm, Germany, 1789-1919: a political history, pp. 233-234
  2. ↑ Otto Pflanze, Bismarck and the development of Germany: the period of unification, 1815-1871, pp. 30-31.