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Lower Bavaria 1347–1353: Otto VII the Lazy 1341–1375–1379 Upper Bavaria 1347–1351: Louis I of Brzeg 1321–1398: Adolf of the Palatinate 1300–1327: Margaret Maultasch of Tyrol 1318–1369: Louis IX of Brandenburg 1315–1347–1361: Barnabò Visconti 1321–1385: Stephen II 1319–1353–1375 Lower Bavaria 1347–1353: Elisabeth of ...
Bavaria however maintained a degree of autonomy in peacetime, with its own two (later three) army corps remaining outside the Prussian order of battle. [11] The Bavarian infantry and cavalry regiments retained their historic light blue and green uniforms, distinctive from the Prussian model adopted throughout most of the army.
In 1967, upon the suggestion of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, it was renamed Bayernbund, to focus more on safeguarding the Bavarian identity rather than on restoring the monarchy. [ 6 ] Some hope was held that the monarchy could be reestablished after 1945, especially in the face of the monarchists' active participation in the German resistance .
A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty, embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty. The actual power of the monarch may vary from purely symbolic ( crowned republic ), to partial and restricted ( constitutional monarchy ), to ...
A further large group were German-speakers from Hungary. In the following decades, Sudeten Germans were acknowledged as Bavaria's fourth largest ethnic group, along with Bavarians, Franconians, and Swabians. [16] Bavaria is home to the Bavarian Party, founded in 1946, whose goal is to establish an independent Bavarian state. [17]
King of Bavaria 1913: 1918 Wittelsbach: His Majesty Ludwig, King of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine. Son of Prince Regent Luitpold and grandson of Ludwig I. Prince Regent from 1912 until 1913, then King of Bavaria, he lost his throne in the German Revolution at the end of World War I.
The origins of the rise of Bavarian nationalism as a strong political movement were in the Austro-Prussian War and its aftermath. [6] Bavaria was politically and culturally closer to Catholic Austria than Protestant Prussia, and the Bavarians shared with the Austrians a common contempt towards the Prussians, which led Bavaria to ally with Austria in the war. [6]
The Monarchy of Germany (the German Monarchy) was the system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. History [ edit ]