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Prince Konrad
Born	(1883-11-22)22 November 1883 Munich, Bavaria
Died	6 September 1969(1969-09-06) (aged 85) Hinterstein, Bavaria
Burial	Andechs Abbey cemetery, Bavaria
Spouse	Princess Bona Margherita of Savoy-Genoa ​ ​(m. 1921)​
Issue	Princess Amalie Isabella Prince Eugen
House	Wittelsbach
Father	Prince Leopold of Bavaria
Mother	Archduchess Gisela of Austria

Prince Konrad of Bavaria (German: Konrad Luitpold Franz Joseph Maria Prinz von Bayern; 22 November 1883 – 6 September 1969) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach.

Early life

Konrad was born in Munich, Bavaria. He was the youngest child of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and his wife Archduchess Gisela of Austria. During World War I, like his older brother Georg, Konrad served in the Royal Bavarian Army mainly on the Eastern Front. He was promoted to Major on 10 September 1914. From 3 December 1917 until the end of the war, he served as commander of the 2nd Heavy Cavalry Regiment "Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria" (Königlich Bayerisches 2. Schwere-Reiter-Regiment „Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este“). He resigned from the military on 6 February 1919.

Marriage

On 8 January 1921 Prince Konrad married Princess Bona Margherita of Savoy-Genoa, the daughter of Prince Tomaso of Savoy-Genoa and Princess Isabella of Bavaria. The wedding took place at the Castello Agliè in Piedmont, Italy.

The couple had two children:

• Princess Amalie Isabella of Bavaria (15 December 1921 in Munich – 28 March 1985 in Milan), married on 25 August 1949 in Lugano, Count Umberto Poletti-Galimberta, Count of Assandri (21 June 1921 in Milan – 18 February 1995 in Milan), son of Luciano Poletti and Adriana Galimberti. They have issue.
• Prince Eugen of Bavaria (16 July 1925 in Munich – 1 January 1997 in Grasse), married Countess Helene of Khevenhüller-Metsch (4 April 1921 in Vienna – 25 December 2017 in Bad Hindelang), daughter of Count Franz of Khevenhüller-Metsch and Princess Anna of Fürstenberg. They have no issue.

Post World War II

At the end of the Second World War, Prince Konrad was arrested by the French military at Hinterstein, brought to Lindau and temporarily interned in the hotel Bayerischer Hof, together with among others, the German Crown Prince Wilhelm and the former Nazi diplomat Hans Georg von Mackensen. Princess Bona who worked during the war as a nurse, stayed afterwards with her relatives in Savoy, prohibited from entering Germany, she was not reunited with her family until 1947. In the later years Prince Konrad worked on the Board of German auto-maker NSU.

Death

Prince Konrad of Bavaria died on 6 September 1969 at Hinterstein in the Oberallgäu region of Bavaria. He is buried at the Andechs Abbey cemetery in Bavaria.

Honours

Prince Konrad received the following orders and decorations:

German states

•  Kingdom of Bavaria:
  • Order of Saint Hubert
  • Order of Saint George, Grand Prior (1905)
  • Military Merit Order, 4th Class with Crown and Swords (31 October 1914)
  • Military Merit Order, 3rd Class with Swords (11 June 1918)
  • Jubilee Medal for the Bavarian Army (2 March 1905)
  • à la suite of the Royal Bavarian 1st Heavy Cavalry Regiment (Königlich Bayerisches 1. Schwere-Reiter-Regiment „Prinz Karl von Bayern“)
• Duchy of Anhalt: Order of Albert the Bear, Grand Cross
• Grand Duchy of Baden: House Order of Fidelity
• Duchy of Brunswick:
  • Order of Henry the Lion, Grand Cross
  • War Merit Cross 2nd Class (7 March 1915)
• Hohenzollern principalities: Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, Honor Cross 1st Class with Swords (20 February 1918)
• House of Nassau: Order of the Golden Lion of the House of Nassau
  • Order of the Black Eagle
  • Iron Cross 2nd Class (27 October 1914)
  • Iron Cross 1st Class (17 July 1915)
  • Cross of the Mount of Olives
•  Kingdom of Saxony: Albert Order, Knight 1st Class with Swords (11 February 1916)
• Saxon duchies: Ducal Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Commander 2nd Class with Swords (25 October 1918)
• Kingdom of Württemberg: Order of the Württemberg Crown, Grand Cross

Foreign states

• Austria-Hungary:
  • Order of the Golden Fleece (1907)
  • Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd Class with War Decoration (6 June 1916)
  • Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with War Decoration (15 June 1915)
  • Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary, Grand Cross (1912)
•  Ottoman Empire:
  • Order of Osmanieh 1st Class
  • Order of the Medjidie 1st Class
  • Liakat Medal in Gold with Sabers (13 January 1916)
  • War Medal (13 January 1916)
•  Papal States: Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Grand Cross
•  Kingdom of Portugal: Military Order of Christ, Grand Cross
• Kingdom of Siam (Thailand): Order of the White Elephant, Grand Cross
•  Spain:
  • Order of Charles III, Knight Grand Cross (9 February 1906)
  • Cross of the Military Knightly Order of Our Lady of Montesa
•  United Kingdom: Royal Victorian Order, Honorary Grand Cross (21 August 1908)

Ancestry

References

1. ^ Bayerisches Kriegsministerium (Herausg.): Militär-Handbuch des Königreichs Bayern, Drucksachen-Verlag des Kriegsministeriums, Munich 1916
2. Günter Wegner: Stellenbesetzung der Deutschen Heere 1815-1939. Band 3: Die Stellenbesetzung der aktiven Regimenter, Battalione und Abteilungen von der Stiftung bzw. Aufstellung bis zum 26. August 1939, Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1, p. 407
3. "Italian Princess to Wed Bavarian", The New York Times, Milan, 7 January 1921
4. Enache, Nicolas. La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg. ICC, Paris, 1996. (French). ISBN 2-908003-04-X
5. "Son to Princess Maria", The New York Times, Rome, 27 July 1925
6. Hof- und - Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern (1908), "Landtag des Königreiches: Mitglieder der Kammer der Reichsräte". p. 157
7. Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Bayern (1908), "Königliche Orden" p. 11
8. ^ Kriegsrangliste des 2. Schweren Reiter-Regiments, Bavarian State Archives, Department IV, War Archive, Kriegsranglisten und -stammrollen, 1914-1918, Munich
9. Günter Wegner: Stellenbesetzung der Deutschen Heere 1815-1939. Band 3: Die Stellenbesetzung der aktiven Regimenter, Battalione und Abteilungen von der Stiftung bzw. Aufstellung bis zum 26. August 1939, Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1, p. 402
10. Richard Lundström & Daniel Krause: Verleihungen des Fürstlichen Hausordens von Hohenzollern mit Schwertern und der Goldene Ehrenmedaille mit Schwertern 1914-1947, Phaleristischer Verlag Michael Autengruber, Konstanz am Bodensee, 2008, ISBN 3-937064-12-5, p. 7
11. Richard Lundström & Daniel Krause: Verleihungen des von militärischen Orden und Ehrenzeichen der Ernestinischen Herzogtümer Sachsen-Altenburg, Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha und Sachsen-Meiningen im Ersten Weltkrieg 1914-1918, Phaleristischer Verlag Michael Autengruber, Konstanz am Bodensee, 2008, ISBN 3-937064-09-5, p.17
12. "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1918, pp. 51, 56, 156, retrieved 14 January 2021
13. Ferry W. von Péter: Verleihungen nichtbayerischer Orden und Ehrenzeichen an bayerische Militärangehörige 1914-1918, Phaleristischer Verlag Autengruber & Hrdina GbR, Offenbach am Main 2001, ISBN 3-932543-25-0, p. 103
14. The London Gazette, issue 28170, p. 6145

Sources

• Schad, Martha,Kaiserin Elisabeth und ihre Töchter. München, Langen Müller, 1998

• Princes of Bavaria
• House of Wittelsbach
• 1883 births
• 1969 deaths
• People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
• Members of the Bavarian Reichsrat
• Military personnel of Bavaria
• Burials at Andechs Abbey
• Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914)
• Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria
• Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
• Grand Crosses of the Order of Christ (Portugal)
• Knights of the Order of Montesa
• Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order