Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider

Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider (26 June 1809 in Sudenburg – 9 February 1889 in Schönebeck) was a German politician and botanist, known for his studies of flora native to what is now called Saxony-Anhalt.

He studied law and natural sciences at the University of Berlin, where one of his teachers was botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth.

From 1861 to 1866 he was a member of the Deutsche Fortschrittspartei (German Progress Party) to the Prussian House of Representatives.

[1][2] In 1866, with Paul Friedrich August Ascherson and others, he founded a naturalist association known as the Aller-Vereins ("Aller Society").

In Zerbst he served as chairman of Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins ("Society of Natural Sciences").