Karl Ignaz Maria Ritter von Brug
(15.06.1855 - 25.04.1923)
place of birth:  Dirlewang, Schwaben
Königreich Bayern:  KG,  General der Infanterie  (Ing)


Karl Ritter von Brug served as a Bavarian general during the Great War and is also credited as establishing air travel in Bavaria. He was born and raised in the Unterallgäu district of southern Germany, the son of a doctor. He attended high school in Augsburg and later studied to be an architect at the Poly-technical Institute in Munich.

Brug began his military career in 1878 when he joined  the Bavarian Army's combat engineers corps. As a captain and company commander in 1890, he was selected to head up the Army's newly established airship detachment. For his meritorious leadership during peacetime, he was awarded the Ritter (Knight class) of the Bavarian crown's order of merit - the Verdienstorden der Bayerischen Krone. The official presentation of the decoration in 1904 elevated him into Bavarian nobility with the title of "Ritter von Brug."

General von Brug was eventually in 1909 appointed as chief inspector of the Royal Bavarian Corps of Engineers. When German forces mobilized for World War One, Ritter von Brug continued as the head of the Bavarian combat engineer troops who were engaged on the Western Front, also functioning as Crown Prince Rupprecht's combat engineers chief at 6. Armee-Oberkommando headquarters. He was promoted to Generalleutnant on 07.03.1910 conferring him the title of Exzellenz (Excellency.) Brug had to retire from military service in 1916 due to health issues which arose during the campaign in France. As a civilian, however, von Brug remained in the area of aviation development in Germany. He was a member of several scientific societies. General von Brug died in April 1923 in his adopted hometown of Garmisch, Bavaria.

	General der Infanterie	19.03.1914
	Verdst-Ord Bayr-Krone	27.12.1903  Ritter