Anna Lühring (3 August 1796, in
Bremen
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– 25 August 1866, in
Hamburg
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) (sometimes wrongly referred to as Anna Lührmann) was a soldier in the
Prussian army during the
Napoleonic Wars
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Life
The daughter of a craftsman in
Bremen
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, she became keen to join up after
Tettenborn's capture of Bremen and the death of
Eleonore Prochaska
Marie Christiane Eleonore Prochaska (11 March 1785, in Potsdam – 5 October 1813, in Dannenberg) was a German female soldier who fought in the Prussian army against Napoleon during the War of the Sixth Coalition.
Life
Prochaska's father was a no ...
whilst serving in the Prussian Army. At the age of 17, dressed in her brother's clothing, she left Bremen in February 1814 and joined the
Lützow Free Corps
Lützow Free Corps ( ) was a volunteer force of the Prussian army during the Napoleonic Wars. It was named after its commander, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow. The Corpsmen were also widely known as the “''Lützower Jäger''“ or “''Schwa ...
under the name Eduard Kruse at
Jülich
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In this unit she participated in the
siege
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of Jülich and some smaller engagements during this. Even after her true identity became known, she remained in the unit until its return to Berlin, where she was honoured for her services. In February 1815 she returned to her parental home.

In 1821, she married Karl Lucks from
Altona, and in 1827 he became a citizen of
Hamburg
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. After his death in 1832 she lived alone and poor in the
Horn
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* Horn (acoustic), a tapered sound guide
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quarter. From 1860 she received a small pension from her hometown of Bremen in return for her services. Today, Anna-Lühring-Straße and Anna-Lühring-Weg in Bremen and Anna-Lühring-Weg in Hamburg-Horn are named after her.
Bibliography
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Herbert Schwarzwälder
Herbert Schwarzwälder (14 October 1919 – 11 September 2011) was a German historian. With his decades of work and his extensive publications, he has had a major influence on the research and communication of the .
Life
Schwarzwälder was born ...
: ''Berühmte Bremer. Paul-List-Verlag'', Munich 1976, , .
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Anna Lühringa
EPOCHE NAPOLEON
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1796 births
1866 deaths
Military personnel from Bremen (city)
Prussian Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Women in the Napoleonic Wars
Female wartime cross-dressers
19th-century German military personnel