Lützow

Lützow, LUDWIG ADOLF WILHELM, FREIHERR VON, born in Brandenburg on 18th May 1782, died at Berlin on 6th December 1834, gave his name to a celebrated corps of volunteers, raised in Silesia during the war of liberation in 1813. It included several celebrated men, as Jahn, Theodor Körner, &c., and was renowned for its ardent patriotism and magnificent courage. The men uniformed themselves, and are often spoken and sung of as the 'Black Rifles' (Jäger). Lützow's wife was the Countess of Ahlefeldt, the friend of Immermann.