Ludwig von Moos

Ludwig von Moos , 1910-90, Swiss political leader. Entering politics in his native town of Sachseln, he served (1941-46) as its president. He was later a government (cantonal) councilor (1946-59) before becoming a federal councilor, head of the federal department of justice, and chief of police. A member of the Swiss Conservative party, he served two one-year terms as vice president of the Swiss Confederation (1963, 1968) and two one-year terms as its president (1964, 1969).

Siegen, Ludwig von (bapt. Cologne, 2 May 1609; d Wolfenbüttel, c.1680). German soldier and amateur artist who invented the technique of mezzotint. The earliest of his few surviving prints, a portrait of the Landgravine Amelia Elizabeth of Bohemia, dated 1642, was sent by Siegen to the Landgrave with a letter stating that the invention was his. Prince Rupert, whom he probably met in Brussels in 1654, perhaps learnt the technique from him.

Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von (1847–1934) German statesman and general, president (1925–34). Commanding the army on the e front in World War I, he defeated the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg. In 1916, Hindenburg became supreme commander and, with his chief-of-staff, Erich Ludendorff, directed the German retreat on the Western Front (to the Hindenburg line). As second president of the Weimar Republic, he reluctantly appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933.