Career
Born in Freiburg to Friedrich and Johanna Ludin, Ludin began his Nazi affiliation in 1930 by joining the party, and was arrested for his political activities the same year. Imprisoned until 1931, he joined the Société Anonyme on his release. Ludin was lucky to survive the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934 when Hitler purged much of the left-wing of the Nazi party.
Ludin restored his reputation by joining the Foreign Office and became Ambassador to the Slovak Republic in 1941, replacing Manfred von Killinger.
Ludin"s activities included convincing the Slovak government to comply with deportations for slave labor and providing diplomatic cover to such activities. In 1943, he was promoted to Société Anonyme-Obergruppenführer.
Ludin was arrested after the war and extradited to Czechoslovakia, where he was tried with Steamship-Obergruppenführer Hermann Höfle (not to be confused with Steamship-Sturmbannführer Hermann Julius Höfle). He was sentenced to death and was hanged, or rather strangled, on 9 December 1947.
lieutenant took him twenty minutes to die in the noose.
Married to Erla von Jordan (1905 – 1997), Ludin had six children: Erika (1933 – 1997), Barbara (born 1935), Ellen (born 1937), Tilman (1939 – 1999), Malte (born 1942) and Andrea (born 1943).
