Christoph in Bavaria
Duke Christoph in Bavaria , baptized name Christoph Joseph Klemens Maria (born April 22, 1879 in Munich , Biederstein Castle , † July 10, 1963 in Munich) was a Wittelsbach prince from the sidelines of the dukes in Bavaria .
Life
Duke Christoph was born as the middle of a total of three sons of Duke Max Emanuel in Bavaria and his wife Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . The father was major general and head of the military riding school in Munich . The family had their seat at Biederstein Castle near Munich and was unofficially called "Biedersteiner Line" after this possession. Duke Max Emanuel died unexpectedly in Feldafing on June 12, 1893 , of a gastric hemorrhage caused by an ulcer. The mother suffered greatly from the sudden death of her husband, became seriously ill herself and died on May 6, 1894, of peritonitis.
The three children had become orphans within less than a year. The uncle, Duke Carl Theodor in Bavaria and his wife Marie José of Portugal , took care of the orphaned boys and even intended to take them fully into their family, which their grandmother Clementine d'Orléans refused. She wanted to keep the children their own family line and the seat at Biederstein Castle. Therefore, the lady-in-waiting of the late Duchess Amalie, Countess Maria Fugger-Glött (1859–1934), together with the Biedersteiner Hofmeister Freiherr Max von Redwitz , son of the poet Oskar von Redwitz , took over the education. They were supported by Duke Carl Theodor and Marie José, who even temporarily moved to Biederstein Castle.
Duke Siegfried in Bavaria , the oldest brother and boss of the Biedersteiner Line, suffered a riding accident with brain damage in 1899, which led to his incapacitation. Therefore, Duke Christoph took over his father's castle and the role of head of the family. During this time the Rittmeister Hans von Axster was his personal adjutant.
The Duke joined the Bavarian Heavy Rider Regiment No. 1 as a lieutenant on October 27, 1906, and he also took part in the First World War in its ranks . On October 25, 1911, Duke Christoph was promoted to major together with his regimental comrade Prince Georg of Bavaria . When the Bavarian Army dissolved, the Wittelsbacher held the rank of lieutenant colonel .
After the war, Duke Christoph lived again as a private citizen and lord of the castle in Biederstein. In 1924 he married the bourgeois wife Anna Sibig. The couple eventually gave up Biederstein Castle and moved into a villa in the Bogenhausen district of Munich (Sternwartstraße 6), where both lived very secluded. In the standard work The Dukes in Bavaria it says:
“ Christoph led a purely middle-class, withdrawn life in his villa in Bogenhausen, where he moved after Biederstein was sold. His somewhat old Franconian but very elegant appearance was known throughout Bogenhausen. It was known that it was a Wittelsbach prince who occasionally did his own shopping in the small shops in the villa district, with his wife, née Anna Sibig, who he married in 1924, mostly walking ten paces behind him. He died in the 1960s after his wife preceded him in death in 1957. "
The couple had no offspring and were buried in the forest cemetery in Munich .
The Duke's villa, built in the neo-classical style in 1924, is now one of the protected monuments of the city of Munich.
literature
- Hermann von Witzleben: The dukes in Bavaria , Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1976, ISBN 3791303945 .
- Norbert Nemec: Archduchess Maria Annunziata (1876–1961): The unknown niece of Emperor Franz Joseph I , Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2010, ISBN 3205784561 .
Web links
- Genealogical page about Duke Christoph in Bavaria ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website with epitaph of Countess Maria Fugger-Glött
- ^ Friedrich Wolf: François de Cuvilliés , volumes 87-89, volume 89 of: Oberbayerisches Archiv , 1967, pages 40 and 41; Section scans from the source
- ↑ Munich and the Munich: people, things, Sitten, Winke, Munich , 1905, page 15; Excerpt from the source .
- ↑ Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , 1912, page 462; Scan from the source
- ^ Association of German Officers: Honor ranking list of the former German Army: on the basis of the ranking lists from 1914 with the changes that have occurred in the meantime , Verlag Mittler, Berlin, 1926, page 819; Scan from the source
- ^ Norbert Nemec: Archduchess Maria Annunziata (1876–1961): The unknown niece of Emperor Franz Joseph I , Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2010, ISBN 3205784561 , pages 105 and 106; Scans from the source
- ↑ To the Ducal Villa, Sternwartstrasse 6 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christoph in Bavaria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duke Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wittelsbacher, Duke in Bavaria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1963 |
| Place of death | Munich |