Der Nachlass Leonrod

| 43 “Taxis”, was “Oberst-Commandeur” of the 4th Chevauleger Regiment “König” after the Austro-PrussianWar in 1867 and distinguished in the Franco-Prussian War, received the Military Merit Order for Orleans, earned the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross near Nogent le Rotron and was decorated with the Iron Cross as the commander of Orleans by the King of Prussia. After 50 years of service, he was awarded the Order of Louis in 1880 and, despite being placed on reserve status for some time, bestowed the provisional rank of Generalleutnant and thus the title “Exzellenz”. As chamberlain, Karl Freiherr von Leonrod had been a member of the royal household since 1852. Considered a close, per- sonal friend of Prince Regent Luitpold, he died on 18 June 1905 in Partenkirchen. The male line of the noble von Leonrod family was ex- tinguished with his grandsons, the resistance fighter Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod, who was executed in 1944, and his brother Maximilian, who succumbed to his injuries in military hospital in 1947. 247753 II - € 2.000 1017