Prince Maximilian of Baden (Max von Baden) (1 July1867–6 November1929) was the cousin and heir of Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden, and succeeded Frederick as head of the Grand Ducal House in 1928. He was married to Maria Luise of Hanover, royal princess of Great Britain and Ireland and duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
Noted as a liberal before and during the First World War, Maximilian was appointed Reichskanzler in October1918 in order to negotiate an armistice with the allies in the last days of the war. Although Max had serious reservations about the way the German General Staff wanted to conduct negotiations, he accepted the charge, and appointed a government that for the first time included representatives of the Social Democrats, Friedrich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann. The government's efforts to secure an armistice were interrupted by the outbreak of revolution in Germany in the first days of November. Max, realizing that the Kaiser would not be able to retain his throne, began to urge him to abdicate in time to save the monarchy itself, but the Kaiser refused to agree until, at last, Paul von Hindenburg and Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff informed the Emperor that he would have to abdicate. Upon the Emperor's abdication, Max also resigned in favor of Ebert on November 9, 1918, which was immediately followed by the proclamation of the German Republic.
Max spent the rest of his life in retirement.
External links
A Page About Max von Baden (http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BadenMax/) (in German)
Baden possesses several parks and is surrounded by lovely and interesting spots, of which the most frequented is the picturesque valley of the Helenenthal, which is traversed by the Schwechat.
BADEN, or BADEN-BADEN (to distinguish it from other places of the name), a town and fashionable watering-place of Germany, in the grand-duchy of Baden, 23 m~ S. by W. of Karlsruhe, with which it is connected by a branch of the Mannheim and Basel railway.
The troops of Baden took a conspicuous share in the war of 2870; and it was the grand-duke of Baden, who, in the historic assembly of the German princes at Versailles, was the first to hail the king of Prussia as German emperor.
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