Ludo (Ludwig) Moritz Hartmann (2 March 1865, Stuttgart – 14 November 1924) was an Austrian historian, diplomat and Social Democratic politician.
[1] He was the son of the poet Moritz Hartmann and his wife Bertha, daughter of Achilles Roediger, a Genevan headmaster and bourgeois liberal educators.
From 1872, when Ludwig was seven, his father suffered a long term illness and was often bed-ridden.
These included the politician Ludwig Bamberger, the surgeon Theodor Billroth, the philosopher of history, Theodor Gomperz, the legal historian Adolf Exner and the historian Heinrich Friedjung.
[1] There is a biennial Ludo Hartmann prize awarded by the Verband Österreichischer Volkshochschulen.