Leopold August Gotthard Jobst Freiherr von Loën
(24.06.1817 - 26.02.1895)
place of birth:  Luckau, Brandenburg
Königreich Preußen:  Div-Kdr,  Generaladjutant SM,  General der Infanterie

                            


Leopold Freiherr von Loën was a general officer serving in the Prussian Army during Kaiser Wilhelm I.'s reign. Leopold's uncle was General der Kavallerie August Georg von Hedemann, while his father-in-law was Prussian statesman Heinrich von Bülow.  Leopold launched his distinguished military career in 1834 when he enlisted in 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß in Potsdam. He was commissioned as a Sekonde-Lieutenant soon thereafter and in 1852 was assigned an aide-de-camp in the service of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Freiherr von Loën then served as Prussian military envoy at Russian Imperial Court in St. Petersburg from 1857 to 1865.

With a promotion to Generalmajor, von Loën was transferred back to Berlin to command 4. Garde-Infanterie-Brigade. During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 (Deutscher Krieg), his brigade saw great success in the Battle at Königgrätz. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 (Deutsch-Französischer Krieg) saw General von Loën in command of the Garde-Landwehr-Division, which took part in the Siege of Paris. He received a war-time promotion to General-Lieutenant on 26 July 1870. After returning to Germany, von Loën was in command of 21. Division headquarters in Frankfurt am Main from 23 May 1871 to 20 March 1873. He thereafter succeeded General von Bonin as Präses der General-Ordens-Kommission (President of the Commission of Military Orders), and office he held from 1873 until May of 1879.

Having been brevetted as General der Infanterie on 22 March 1876, he retired from active duty (zur Disposition gestellt) on 13 May 1879 and was named as Generaladjutant to Kaiser Wilhelm I. His official promotion (Patent) to the rank of General der Infanterie went into effect on 18 September 1880. Von Loën continued to serve as Generaladjutant with Wilhelm I.'s successor, Kaiser Friedrich III.

	General der Infanterie	18.09.1880
	Erinnerungs-Kreuz	Deutscher Krieg 1866
	Eisernes Kreuz II	Deutsch-Französischer Krieg  1870–1871