Prince Konrad of Bavaria

Infobox_Prince| name = Prince Konrad of Bavaria


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consort =Princess Bona Margherita of Savoy-Genoa
royal house =House of Wittelsbach
father =Prince Leopold of Bavaria
mother =Archduchess Gisela of Austria
date of birth =birth date|1883|11|22|mf=y
place of birth =Munich, Bavaria
date of death =death date and age|1969|9|6|1883|11|22|mf=y
place of death =Hinterstein, Bavaria
place of burial=Andechs Abbey cemetery, Bavaria|

Prince Konrad of Bavaria ( _de. Konrad Luitpold Franz Joseph Maria Prinz von Bayern) (November 22, 1883 - September 06, 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 Bavarian army mainly on the Eastern Front as a commander of the "2. Schweren-Reiter-Regiment." Konrad reached the rank of Major and resigned from the military on February 6, 1919.

Marriage

On January 8, 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 Castle Aglie in Piedmont, Italy. The couple had two children:

* Princess Amalie Isabella of Bavaria (1921-1985)
* Prince Eugen of Bavaria (1925-1997)

Post WWII

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 September 6, 1969 at Hinterstein in the Oberallgäu region of Bavaria. He is buried at the Andechs Abbey cemetery in Bavaria.

References

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

Ancestry

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1= 1. Prince Konrad of Bavaria
2= 2. Prince Leopold of Bavaria
3= 3. Archduchess Gisela of Austria
4= 4. Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria
5= 5. Archduchess Augusta of Austria
6= 6. Emperor Franz Joseph I
7= 7. Elisabeth in Bavaria
8= 8. King Ludwig I of Bavaria
9= 9. Therese of Bavaria
10= 10. Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
11= 11. Princess Maria Anna of Saxony
12= 12. Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
13= 13. Princess Sophie of Bavaria
14= 14. Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria
15= 15. Princess Ludovika of Bavaria