Eduard von Lütcken

Eduard von Lütcken was an active officer in the Saxony Army and an eventer. He came in eighth in the individual part of the three-day-event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics on his horse Blue Boy, and won a team silver medal. He attended the University of Heidelberg, where he joined the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg. In September 1914, he was killed-in-action during World War I. Von Lütcken served as an oberlieutenant with Royal Saxon Ulan Regiment No. 17, where he fought on the Eastern Front in Szumsk, Lithuania. He was killed while on patrol when his horse was shot from under him, and then he was subsequently killed.