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Max of Baden

Prince Maximilian of Baden
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8th Chancellor of Germany
 German Empire
In office
3 October – 9 November 1918
Monarch Wilhelm II
Preceded by Georg von Hertling
Succeeded by Friedrich Ebert
19th Minister President of Prussia
In office
3 October – 9 November 1918
Preceded by Georg von Hertling
Succeeded by Friedrich Ebert
Foreign minister of Prussia
In office
3 October – 9 November 1918
Preceded by Georg von Hertling
Succeeded by None
Personal details
Born Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm
(1867-07-10)10 July 1867
Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden
Died 6 November 1929(1929-11-06) (aged 62)
Salem, Germany
Political party None
Spouse(s) Princess Marie Louise of Hanover
Children Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden
Berthold, Margrave of Baden
Parents Prince William of Baden
Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg
Religion Roman Catholic

Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Margrave of Baden (10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929), also known as Max von Baden, was a German prince and politician. He was heir to the Grand Duchy of Baden and in October and November 1918 briefly served as Chancellor of the German Empire. He sued for peace on Germany's behalf at the end of World War I based on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, which included immediately transforming the government into a parliamentary system and proclaiming the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II.

Born in Baden-Baden on 10 July 1867, Maximilian was a member of the House of Baden, the son of Prince Wilhelm Max (1829–1897), third son of Grand Duke Leopold (1790–1852) and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914), a granddaughter of Eugène de Beauharnais. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Maximilian de Beauharnais, and bore a resemblance to his cousin, Emperor Napoleon III.

Max received a humanistic education at a Gymnasium secondary school and studied law and cameralism at the Leipzig University. In 1900, he married Princess Marie Louise of Hanover (1879–1948) at Gmunden. Upon the order of Queen Victoria, Prince Max was brought to Darmstadt in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine as a suitor for Victoria's granddaughter, Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt. Alix was the daughter of Victoria's late daughter, Princess Alice, and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. Alix quickly rejected Prince Max. She was in love with Nicholas II, the future Tsar of Russia.


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