Max Emanuel Herzog in Bayern

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Max Emanuel in Bayern
Duke in Bavaria
Born (1937-01-21) 21 January 1937 (age 87)
Munich, Germany
Spouse
Countess Elisabeth Douglas
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(m. 1967)​
Issue
Names
Max-Emanuel Ludwig Maria Herzog in Bayern
House Wittelsbach
Father Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria
Mother Countess Maria Draskovich von Trakostjan
Religion Roman Catholic

Max-Emanuel Ludwig Maria Herzog in Bayern (sometimes styled Prince Max of Bavaria, Duke in Bavaria ; born 21 January 1937) as the younger son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, is the heir presumptive to both the headship of the former Bavarian royal house and the Jacobite succession.

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Life

He was born a Prince of Bavaria, as a member of the royal line of the House of Wittelsbach, whose head is his older brother Franz, Duke of Bavaria. However, he has been using the title "Herzog in Bayern" or Duke in Bavaria, since he was adopted as an adult by his grand-uncle, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, the last bearer of that title of a junior branch of the House of Wittelsbach, from whom he inherited considerable estates at Tegernsee Abbey (including a brewery), Banz Abbey and the spa of Kreuth.

Since the Wittelsbach dynasty was opposed to the Nazi regime in Germany, his parents had emigrated from Kreuth, Bavaria, to Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. The family was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, and 7-year old Max, along with his parents and siblings, were deported to the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg and Dachau. Badly hit by hunger and disease, the family barely survived. [1]

After the war, Max attended the humanistic high school of Ettal Abbey and, like his older brother, studied business administration at the universities of Munich and Zurich. He completed a banking apprenticeship in Switzerland before working in the administration of the House of Wittelsbach and of the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund (WAF). In addition to managing his agricultural and forestry operations, he then devoted himself primarily to the expansion of the Ducal Bavarian Brewery of Tegernsee, now managed by his youngest daughter Maria Anna. He was a member in the advisory board of a foundation running the Augustiner-Bräu brewery in Munich.

He has since taken over some honorary positions from his older brother and is now a member of the board of trustees of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a member of the Bavarian advisory board of the Malteser Hilfsdienst, a charitable organization of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta that runs hospitals. He also took over the chairmanship of the board of trustees of the European Foundation for the Imperial Cathedral of Speyer [2] in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, through which the House of Wittelsbach still maintains a connection to one of its former main territories, the Electoral Palatinate.

Family

Max married the Swedish Countess Elisabeth Douglas (born 31 December 1939 in Stockholm), daughter of Count Carl Ludvig Douglas (Swedish Ambassador to Brazil [3] ) and Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (a daughter of Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye and Countess Victoria zu Eulenburg), and sister of Count Gustaf Douglas, in a civil ceremony in Kreuth on 10 January 1967 and in a religious ceremony in Munich on 24 January 1967. His wife is also a granddaughter of Lieutenant General Count Archibald Douglas and a great-granddaughter of Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg.

They have five daughters:

Max and Elisabeth initially raised their daughters in Kreuth. In 1979 they moved to Schloss Wildenwart near Frasdorf, after Princess Helmtrud of Bavaria, a daughter of the late King Ludwig III, had died there in 1977. In this private palace the Royal couple had lived after the revolution and Queen Maria Theresa had died there in 1919.

Honours

Ancestry

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References

  1. ↑ Franz von Bayern (with Marita Krauss): Zuschauer in der ersten Reihe: Erinnerungen (Front row audience: memories), publisher C. H. Beck, 2023, pp. 5–28
  2. ↑ Website of the European Foundation for the Imperial Cathedral of Speyer: Committees (with image)
  3. ↑ Lovell, Mary S. (2011). The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill. Hachette UK. ISBN   9780748117116 . Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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Max Emanuel Herzog in Bayern
Born: 21 January 1937
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