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After taking part in the First World War, Ludwig Gehre returned to Munich, where he was a part of the Epp Freikorps and an early NSDAP member. However, he soon left the party after differences with Hitler. Initially working for the People's Federation for Labor Service and in the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, he served in the Office for Foreign Affairs/Counterintelligence under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris in the Armed Forces High Command. A member of the circle around Hans Oster and Hans von Dohnanyi, Gehre was involved in preparing an assassination attempt on Hitler undertaken in March 1943 by the military opposition sympathizers around Henning von Tresckow. When Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was arrested in January 1944 because of his contact with the envoy Otto Kiep, the same fate befell Captain Ludwig Gehre.

However, he managed to escape from his guards during a transport shortly afterwards. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, the hunt for Gehre was resumed. He was able to remain in hiding until November 8, 1944. During his arrest, his second wife Hanna Gehre died under unclear circumstances. She had also gone into hiding in August 1944 to evade imminent arrest. Ludwig Gehre tried to kill himself, inflicting serious injury on his eye. After he recovered he was severely tortured under interrogation and then transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was taken to Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 5, 1945 and murdered there on Hitler's orders on April 9, 1945.