Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein

Who was Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein?

Ludwig Johann Karl Gregor Eusebius Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein was a Prussian General of the cavalry and Minister of War.

Her was the son of Friedrich Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein and of Kunigunde von Riedheim and belonged to old Swabian Reichrsritter family Roth von Schreckenstein, which had its ancestral seat in Immendingen.

Already in 1806, Schreckenstein became a squire at the court of Frederick Augustus I of Saxony. On 16 April 1809 he received his commission, and joined the Saxonian cuirassier regiment of Zastrow as a Lieutenant and in 1812 participated in Napoleon's campaign in Russia with the Grande Armée. There he was on the staff of General Johann von Thielmann, and earned great credit in September 1812 at the victory of the Battle of Borodino.

On 15 May 1815, Schreckenstein joined the Prussian service as a Rittmeister and adjutant to Thielmann. He fought with the III Prussian Army Corps in 1815 at the battles of Ligny and Wavre during the Belgian campaign. Promoted to Major in 1816, in 1824 he was appointed staff officer of the 8. Husarenregiment in Düsseldorf.