Hermann Löns
Hermann Löns | |
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| Born | October 29, 1866 |
| Died | September 26, 1914 (aged 47) |
| Occupations | Journalist & writer |
| Spouse(s) |
Elisabet Erbeck
(m. 1893–1901)Lisa Hausmann (m. 1901) |
| Children | 1 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | German Empire |
| Branch | Imperial German Army |
| Service years | 1914 |
| Rank | Fusilier |
| Unit | 73rd Fusilier Regiment |
| Conflicts | World War I |
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Hermann Löns (29 August 1866 – 26 September 1914) was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Löns is well known in Germany for his famous folksongs. He was also a hunter, naturalist and conservationist. Despite being well over the normal recruitment age, Löns enlisted and was killed in World War I and his purported remains were later used by the German government for celebratory purposes.