 He designed the Berlin Airlift Monument in Platz der Luftbrücke, Berlin.Ludwig was born in Mühlhausen, in Thuringia.His father was a cabinet maker, and he served as his apprentice, then received further training at the handwork school in Blankenburg in the Harz and beginning in 1926 at the Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden, now part of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.