Ludwig Rudolph was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, the third child and second son of Ernst August, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1914–1987) and his wife Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925–1980). Ludwig Rudolph was a great-great-great-great-grandson of George III of the United Kingdom and a great-grandson of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.
Ludwig Rudolph had trained to become a music producer in Los Angeles and London. Having obtained the consent of Elizabeth II by Order in Council on 15 September 1987 pursuant to the Royal Marriages Acting 1772, Ludwig Rudolph, a Lutheran, married the Roman Catholic Countess Isabelle von Thurn und Valsassina-Como-Vercelli (born 1962 in Gmunden, Upper Austria), a former fashion model at her father"s ancestral Austrian estate in Bleiburg, Carinthia on 4 October 1987. Ludwig Rudolph and Isabelle had one son:
Prince Otto Heinrich Aripand George Johannes Ernst August Vinzenz Egmont Franz of Hanover (born 13 February 1988)
Then he slipped away.
Several hours later Ludwig Rudolph was found near his family"s hunting lodge several miles away, on Lake Traun.
He was in his car with the motor running. He had the muzzle of a rifle in his mouth and was dead of a gunshot wound.
The case was closed without further investigation. Ludwig Rudolph and Isabelle were interred on 2 December 1988 at Grünau im Almtal, Austria, having been married less than 14 months.
