 He also served as the honorary Hungarian Consul-General in Linz.Ludwig von Bogdandy was a son of the Hungarian physical chemist Stefan von Bogdándy, who moved to Berlin in the 1920s, and was the father of the legal scholar Armin von Bogdandy.He earned a Habilitation at RWTH Aachen University in 1959, and became associate professor at the same university in 1965.