Maximilian von Bodman

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Max von Bodman (born June 5, 1873 in Karlsruhe , † August 12, 1953 in Kreuth ) was a royal Bavarian chamberlain , officer and adjutant of the last Bavarian King Ludwig III.

Life

Johann Maximilian Carl Freiherr von Bodman came from a highly free Swabian noble family and was a son of the former Prussian major who had settled in Munich after his service . D. Johann Leopold Freiherr von und zu Bodman (1840–1915) and his wife Sophie Amalie, née von Dahmen (1850–1945). Heinrich von und zu Bodman , the last Minister of State of the Kingdom of Baden, was an uncle. Max von Bodman attended Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium from 1889 and passed the Abitur exams here in 1892, with Alfred von Bary , Theodor von Cramer-Klett junior and Hugo Reichenberger , among others . Then he struck, like his brothers Johann (1872–1925) and Wilhelm (1878–1965), a military career. He was appointed Royal Chamberlain and initially served as a lieutenant in the Royal Bavarian 3rd Field Artillery Regiment , which was stationed in Amberg. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and 1901 he took part in the fighting in the hinterland of the German leased area in China, Kiautschou . During the First World War Max von Bodmann served as an officer on the Western Front, including in Douai . Until November 1918 he was a wing adjutant on the immediate staff of the last Bavarian King Ludwig III. After the end of the war he received his farewell with the rank of colonel.

literature

  • Field post letters mainly from officers of Bavarian artillery units to Wiltrud Princess of Bavaria and to the ladies-in-waiting of the princesses of Bavaria BL; Contains: letters of thanks from the officers for the gifts of love (gift packages) sent by Princess Wiltrud and the ladies-in-waiting, individual descriptions of war experiences; contains letters from F. Freiherr von Berchem, Maximilian Freiherr Besserer von Thalfingen, Freiherren Johann and Max von und zu Bodman (with a photo of the visit of King Ludwig III of Bavaria in Douai), Wilhelm Freiherr von und zu Bodman (with photos, among others Battle positions on the Somme, near Péronne, Templeuve and Bazien, of destroyed buildings in Dampierre, of Ornes and Apremont, of positions near Verdun), Major von Bomhard, Franz Cammerer (with photographs of positions in the Vosges and of destroyed buildings in Münster / Alsace), Oskar Raoul and Victor Gluth, Emanuel Graf von Holnstein, Captain Freiherr von Lassberg, Walter von Lossow, Major H. Graf von Luxburg, in: Estate of Wiltrud Duchess von Urach (née Princess of Bavaria): Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Main State Archive Stuttgart, signature: GU 119 Bü 807 ( http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=1-757821 ).
  • Johann Leopold Freiherr von und zu Bodman: History of the barons of Bodman. Family tables of the counts and baronial von Bodman family. Niedermayr, Rosenheim 1894, Plot V.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1889/90 to 1891/92
  2. ↑ the sister Maria (Franziska Caroline) was born in 1880; she died in 1963
  3. ^ Royal Bavarian 9th Field Artillery Regiment , commander with the rank of major: June 18 to October 4, 1918
personal data
SURNAME Bodman, Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodman, Johann Maximilian Carl Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian chamberlain and officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1953
Place of death Kreuth