Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach


Leopold von Gerlach was a Prussian army general, adjutant to Frederick William IV of Prussia and a Protestant conservative associate of Otto von Bismarck.

Biography

Leopold von Gerlach was born in Berlin, the son of Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach, Mayor of Berlin. He and his brother, Ludwig von Gerlach, formed the "Christian Germanic" circle to propagate the ideas of the Swiss jurist Karl Ludwig von Haller.