See Also: Beck, Ludwig(encyclopedia)
beck(2)(dictionary)
beck(3)(dictionary)
beck(4)(dictionary)
beck(dictionary)
beck(1)(dictionary)
Beck's method(medicine)
Beck's triad(medicine)
Beck, Claude(medicine)
Beck, Emil(medicine)

Beck, Ludwig (sh)




born June 29, 1880, Biebrich, Ger.
died July 20, 1944, Berlin

German general.

After serving with the army general staff in World War I, he was later chief of the general staff (1935-38). He opposed Adolf Hitler's occupation of the Rhineland and resigned to protest the decision to conquer Czechoslovakia. He helped plan the unsuccessful July Plot to assassinate Hitler; when it failed, Beck committed suicide.