Max Emanuel Herzog in Bavaria

Max Emanuel Ludwig Maria Herzog in Bavaria (born January 21, 1937 in Munich , maiden name Max Emanuel Ludwig Maria Prince of Bavaria ) is a German entrepreneur and family member of the Wittelsbach family , the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Life

Wildenwart Castle

The former Tegernsee monastery with basilica

Max Emanuel is the second and youngest son of Albrecht von Bayern (1905–1996) and his first wife, Countess Maria Drašković von Trakošćan (1904–1969). He is a great-grandson of the last Bavarian King Ludwig III. Together with his sisters, the twins Marie Gabriele and Marie Charlotte (* 1931), and his brother Franz (* 1933), he grew up in Munich, Croatia and Hungary . In October 1944, his father was arrested by the Gestapo and together with his family in the Sachsenhausen , Flossenbürg and Dachau concentration camps held captive. After the war he attended the Humanist High School in Ettal and, like his older brother, studied business administration at the universities of Munich and Zurich . In Switzerland he completed an apprenticeship in banking before he worked in the administration of the Hofkammer and Wittelsbach Compensation Fund (WAF) of the Wittelsbach family. Max Emanuel is a member of the board of trustees of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the state advisory board of the Malteser Aid Service. Together with Catherine Demeter , Max Emanuel is a board member of the Edith Haberland Wagner Foundation . He and his family live in Tegernsee Castle and Wildenwart Castle .

On March 18, 1965, Max Emanuel Prince of Bavaria was adopted by his great-uncle Ludwig Wilhelm Herzog in Bavaria (1884-1968), who had no descendants from his marriage to Eleonore zu Sayn-Wittgenstein -Berleburg, to maintain the line of dukes in Bavaria . Since then, Max Emanuel, like his adoptive father, has borne the family name Herzog in Bavaria. He took over the ducal property in Tegernsee, including the former monastery with the Tegernsee brewery , the Wildbad Kreuth and the land of the former Banz monastery .

Since Max Emanuel's older brother, the current head of the House of Wittelsbach, Franz Duke of Bavaria, is childless, and he has no male descendants himself, the successor goes to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria , the grandson of the third son of King Ludwig III. ; then on his first-born son Ludwig Heinrich Prince of Bavaria . House Legally equal marriage is Luitpold pursuant to a deed since 3 March 1999th

Succession to the throne of the Jacobites

Max Emanuel is a descendant of the sister of the Scottish and English King James II Stuart with his second wife and Catholic Maria Beatrice d'Este . He is therefore regarded by the Jacobites as the successor to the British throne after the death of his brother Franz and would be referred to by them as Max I, King of England , Scotland , Ireland and France . The Jacobites call him the Duke of Albany . The position of heir to the House of Stuart will fall to his eldest daughter, Hereditary Princess Sophie von und zu Liechtenstein .

Marriage and offspring

On January 24, 1967, Max Emanuel Prince of Bavaria married Elizabeth Christina Countess Douglas (born December 31, 1940 in Stockholm ) in Wildbad Kreuth , daughter of Count Carl Ludwig Douglas and Ottora Haas-Heye and sister of the Swedish industrialist Count Gustaf Douglas . Five daughters were born from their marriage:

• Sophie Elisabeth Marie Gabrielle (* 1967) ⚭ 1993 Hereditary Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein
• Marie Caroline Hedwig Eleanore (* 1969) ⚭ 1991 Philipp Herzog von Württemberg
• Helene Eugenie Maria Donata Mechtilde (* 1972)
• Elisabeth Marie Charlotte Franziska (* 1973) ⚭ 2004 Daniel Terberger
• Maria Anna Henriette Gabriele Julie (* 1975) ⚭ 2015 Andreas von Maltzan

ancestors

Pedigree Franz Duke of Bavaria
Great-great-grandparents	Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821–1912) ⚭ 1844 Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (1825–1864)	Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este (1821–1849) ⚭ 1847 Elisabeth Franziska Maria of Austria (1831–1903)	Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808–1888) ⚭ 1828 Ludovika Wilhelmine of Bavaria (1808–1892)	King Michael of Portugal (1802–1866) ⚭ 1851 Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831–1909)	Count Karl Draskovich von Trakostjan (1807–1855) ⚭ 1841 Elisabeth Batthyány-Strattmann von Németújvár (1820–1882)	Count Dionys Festetics von Tolna (1813–1891) ⚭ 1842 Karolina Zichy von Zich and Vásonykeö (1820–1906)	Prince Wilhelm Albrecht von Montenuovo (1821–1895) ⚭ 1850 Juliane Batthyány-Strattmann von Némétujvár (1827–1871)	Prince Ferdinand Bonaventura Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau (1834–1904) ⚭ 1856 Maria von und zu Liechtenstein (1835–1905)
Great grandparents	King Ludwig III. (1845–1921) ⚭ 1868 Marie Therese of Austria-Este (1849–1919)		Duke Carl Theodor in Bavaria (1839–1909) ⚭ 1874 Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857–1943)		Count Paul Draskovich von Trakostjan (1846–1889) ⚭ 1874 Maria Festetics von Tolna (1850–1946)		Prince Alfred von Montenuovo (1854–1927) ⚭ 1879 Franziska Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau (1861–1935)
Grandparents	Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869–1955) ⚭ 1900 Marie Gabriele in Bavaria (1878–1912)				Count Dionys Draskovich von Trakostjan (1875–1909) ⚭ 1903 Juliana von Montenuovo (1880–1961)
parents	Albrecht Duke of Bavaria (1905–1996) ⚭ 1930 Maria Drašković von Trakošćan (1904–1969)
Max Emanuel Herzog in Bavaria, b. Max Emanuel Prince of Bavaria (* 1937)

literature

• Administration of the Duke of Bavaria (ed.): Genealogy of the House of Wittelsbach. Munich 1996
• Hans and Marga Rall: The Wittelsbacher. From Otto I. to Elisabeth I. Tosa, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85001-485-1

swell

1. ↑ Max Emanuel Ludwig Maria Prinz von Bayern on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 11, 2016.