LUTZOW, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm, Baron of, Prussian general: b. Berlin, 18 May 1782; d. Berlin, 6 Dec. 1834. He is renowned as the leader of the noted Freischar (volunteer cavalry). He entered the ranks (1795) of the Prussian Guards, fought in the Reizenstein rwiment (1806) at Auerstadt, and joined the Sant corps at Kolberg when his regiment was disbanded. He organized the cavalry, fighting and being wounded at Stargard and, receiving (1808) his discharge with the rank of major, he rejoined Schill, to be again wounded at Dadendorf. He re-entered (1811) the cavalry and was empowered (1813) to organize a corps of volunteers in Silesia and Jahn, Friesen, Kiirner, etc., joined him. The Liitzow Volun teers were generally called the "(Black after their uniform, and were engaged in at tacking flanks or in guerilla fighting and in Thuringen, Hessen and Westphalia raising in surrections. The plan proved a failure on account of apathy of the inhabitants and the raids on the rear of the French were followed by the battle of Grosserschen. On the 17th June in spite of the armistice of Poischwitz being in operation Generals Fournier and von Normann (the latter a Wurtemberger) am buscaded him near Leipzig and nearly wiped out the small body of troopers. They re
organized and added to their fame as intrepid raiders in the engagement at Garde (16 Sept. 1813) when they helped beat the French divi sion, he again being severely wounded. He next is found with his troopers fighting the Danes. In March 1814, he was taken prisoner by the French militia while carrying dispatches from the Silesian army corps under Bliicher at Chalons. Gaining his freedom when peace was made he was advanced to lieutenant-colonel and (1814) was given command of the 6th Uhlan regiment, to be taken prisoner in the battle of Ligny, to be again freed by the peace gained through the victory of Belle-Alliance. He was raised to a colonelcy in 1815, to major general in 1822; retiring hi 1830 as a lieutenant general. Theodore Korner the poet, one of his volunteers, has made the Black Troopers eter nally noted by his gripping poem wilde Jaged.) Consult Ciselen, (Geschichte des. Liitzowschen Freikorps' (2d ed., Halle 1841).