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About Advokaat Ludwig Emil Krause, b11
Commandant Ludwig ("Lodi") Krause compiled his memoirs in captivity in Pretoria early in 1901, shortly after being captured by the British forces. Born in Bloemfontein in 1872, he was unusually well educated for a Boer officer, having 4 university degrees by 1899, incl. an M.A. from Cambridge. Up to 1899 his career & that of his contemporary Jan Smuts moved together in roughly parallel fashion.
Krause describes the early campaigns in Natal in detail, covering Elandslaagte, Ladysmith, Spioenkop, Colenso and Pieter's Heights. >From Natal the focus moves to the Transvaal, and the retreat from the capital. As military legal adviser to the Boer Forces, Krause's view was that of the critical & privileged insider . He presided at a number of sensational trials (incl. that of Genl. Schoeman for treason) & was extremely critical of Kruger's government & of the widespread corruption & maladministration.
The final part of the memoir covers the little-known guerrilla theatre of the Northern Transvaal, where Krause served with the incompetent but larger-than-life Barend Vorster & with General Beyers. He saw a great deal of the backvelders of the Zoutpansberg commando who, according to Arthur Barlow, did not have a pair of socks between them!
Krause's family was a talented & distinguished one & this is exemplified by the career of his brother Fritz Krause, whose life "deserved to be made immortal.....through the annals of the ...film industry." A Pretoria advocate, Fritz Krause was responsible for the saving of the gold mines from destruction in 1900. After being captured he went on parole to London & was sentenced on trumped-up charges for "incitement to commit murder", serving 15 months in Holloway Prison. After the war he became Judge-President of the O.F.S. And paid a great deal of attention to penal reform.
THE WAR MEMOIRS OF COMMANDANT LUDWIG KRAUSE 1899-1900, edited by Jerold Taitz
TAB MHG 3570/42
Death record of mother Anna Frederika Kellner Krause (South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1958): https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS92-D32T-G?i=1267...
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Advokaat Ludwig Emil Krause, b11's Timeline
| 1872 |
March 23, 1872
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Bloemfontein, Motheo, Free State, South Africa
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| 1942 |
June 28, 1942
Age 70
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Pietersburg, Limpopo, South Africa
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