Prince Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm of Baden (Max von Baden) (10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929) was the cousin and heir of Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden (being the eldest son of his uncle Prince Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden), and succeeded Frederick as head of the Grand Ducal House in 1928. He was also a first cousin twice removed of Napoleon III, with whom he shared a striking resemblance. He was married to Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland, eldest daughter of Ernst Augustus II of Hanover and Thyra of Denmark. In 1918 he served as the 8th Chancellor of Germany. Max von Baden (pre-1919 photo) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... 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Career

Maximilian was born in Baden-Baden. , Baden-Baden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

Noted as a liberal before and during the First World War, he was appointed Chancellor of Germany in October 1918 in order to negotiate an armistice with the allies in the last days of the war. Although he 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 head of government of Germany is called Chancellor (German: Kanzler). ... SPD redirects here. ... This is not the Friedrich Ebert involved in the founding of the GDR, but rather his father. ... Philipp Scheidemann (26 July 1865 – 29 November 1939) was a German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. ...

The government's efforts to secure an armistice were interrupted by the outbreak of revolution in Germany in the first days of November. Maximilian, realizing that the Kaiser would not be able to retain his throne, urged him to abdicate in time to save the monarchy itself, but the Kaiser refused to agree, even though Paul von Hindenburg and Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff urged the same course of action. German Emperor Wilhelm (born Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht, Prince of Prussia 27 January 1859–4 June 1941), was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia (de: Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen), ruling from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. ... Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known universally as Paul von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman. ... Wilhelm Groener (November 22, 1867 - May 3, 1939) was a German soldier and politician. ...

Then Maximilian announced the abdication without the Kaiser's consent, and resigned in favour of Ebert on 9 November 1918. This was immediately followed by the proclamation of the German Republic. is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Prince Maximilian spent the rest of his life in retirement. He died at Salem in 1929. Salem is a town in the Bodensee district of Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany, located 9 km north of Lake Constance, with a population of c. ...

Children

He and Maria Luise were parents to two children:

• Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (August 1, 1902 - January 29, 1944). Married Prince Wolfgang Moritz of Hesse-Cassel, a son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Margaret of Prussia. Marie Alexandra was killed in a bombing of Frankfurt by the Allies of World War II.

• Prince Berthold, Margrave of Baden (February 24, 1906 - October 27, 1963). Married Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, a daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Prince Berthold was the brother-in-law of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Ancestry

1st Grand Duke Karl Friedrich of Baden, painting by Johann Ludwig Kisling, 1806/1807 Karl Friedrich, 1st Grand Duke of Baden (November 22, 1728 in Karlsruhe – June 10, 1811 in Karlsruhe) was the son of Hereditary Prince Friedrich of Baden-Durlach and Amelia of Nassau-Dietz (October 13, 1710 – September... Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden (29 August 1790 –24 April 1852) succeeded in 1830 as the fourth Grand Duke of Baden. ... For other people and places of the same name, see Gustaf Adolf (disambiguation). ... Princess Sophie of Sweden (Swedish: , German: Sophie von Schweden), (May 21, 1801 - July 6, 1865), was a consort Grand Duchess of Baden. ... Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden (March 12, 1781 - September 25, 1826) was Queen consort of Sweden from 1797 to 1809. ... Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (September 3, 1781 - February 21, 1824) was the first child and only son of Joséphine de Tascher de la Pagerie and Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais. ... Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Napoleon de Beauharnais (2 October 1817 Munich - 1 November 1852 St. ... Princess Augusta of Bavaria paiting by François Gérard c. ... Nicholas I (Russian: Николай I Павлович, Nikolaj I Pavlovič), July 6 (June 25, Old Style), 1796 – March 2 (18 February Old Style), 1855), was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855, known as one of the most reactionary of the Russian monarchs. ... Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. ... Alexandra Feodorovna, born Charlotte, Princess of Prussia, (July 13, 1798 – November 1, 1860) was Empress consort of Russia. ...

References

• My Syllabus of Errors, by O.C. Hiss. Berlin: Potsdam Press, 1990.

External links

• A Page About Max von Baden (in German)