- Anna Lühring
Anna Lühring (
3 August 1796 ,Bremen -25 August 1866 ,Hamburg ) (sometimes wrongly referred to as Anna Lührmann) was a soldier in thePrussian army during theNapoleonic Wars .Life
The daughter of a craftsman in
Bremen , she became keen to join up after Tettenborn's capture of Bremen and the death ofEleonore Prochaska whilst serving in the Prussian Army. Dressed in her brother's clothing, she left Bremen in February 1814 and joined theLützow Free Corps under the name Eduard Kruse at his camp beforeJülich . In this unit she participated in the capture of Jülich and some smaller engagements during its siege. Even when her true identity became known she remained in the unit until its return to Berlin, where she was honoured for her services. In February 1815 she then returned to her parental home.In 1821, she married Karl Lucks from Altona, and in 1827 he became a citizen of
Hamburg . After his death in 1832 she lived alone and poor in Horn. From 1860 she received a small pension from her home town of Bremen in return for her services. Today the Anna-Lühring-Straße and the Anna-Lühring-Weg in Bremen and the Anna-Lühring-Weg in Horn are named after her.Bibliography
*de icon Herbert Schwarzwälder: "Berühmte Bremer. Paul-List-Verlag", Munich 1976, ISBN 3-471-78718-6, S. 62-70.
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* [http://www.epoche-napoleon.net/88.html Anna Lühring] at [http://www.epoche-napoleon.net EPOCHE NAPOLEON]
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