Louis Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen

Ludwig Friedrich of Saxe- Hildburghausen ( born September 11, 1710 in Hildburghausen, † June 10, 1759 in Nijmegen) was Prince of Saxe- Hildburghausen.

Life

Ludwig Friedrich was the younger son of Duke Ernst Friedrich I of Saxe- Hildburghausen and his wife Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach- Erbach. In his youth he joined the Imperial military service and was trained by Frederick Henry of Seckendorf. Since 1738, Major General, he was involved a year later in the campaign against the Turks in Hungary and in 1739 appointed general field sergeant. Two years later he gave up the imperial service and joined the Bavarian Army, where he fought in the War of Austrian Succession. In 1742 he became field marshal lieutenant in Bavaria. Emperor Charles VII gave him the Infantry Regiment " Holnstein " and appointed him in 1743 to the General Feldzeugmeister. As commander of the besieged town of Braunau am Inn, he had to meet the demand dominate 1743 Zinnmünzen and leaden Notklippen.

Elector Maximilian III. promoted him in 1745 as commander of all Bavarian troops. In Holland he fought in the War of Austrian Succession 1746-1748 further and had his own regiment " Hildburghausen ." 1748 he retired from Bavarian services and went to his hometown.

The prince married on May 4, 1749 Weikersheim Christiane Luise ( 1713-1778 ), daughter of Duke Joachim Frederick of Holstein -Sonderburg- Plön and widow of Count Albrecht Ludwig von Hohenlohe- Weikersheim. The marriage remained childless. Through financial support of the House of Hohenlohe it was Ludwig Friedrich possible, the manor slipways rebuild, which he restored very complex. From creditors pursued, he took in Holland back to active duty and died in 1759 as governor of Nijmegen.