Prince Maximilian of Baden

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Prince Maximilian of Baden

Image:MaxvonBaden.jpeg
Order:	8th Chancellor of Germany
Term of Office:	3 October 1918 – 9 November 1918
Predecessor:	Count Georg von Hertling
Successor:	Friedrich Ebert
Date of Birth:	10 July 1867
Date of Death:	6 November 1929
Political Party:	none
Profession:	general

Prince Maximilian of Baden (Max von Baden) (10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929) was the cousin and heir of Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden, and succeeded Frederick as head of the Grand Ducal House in 1928. He was married to Maria Luise of Hanover, royal princess of Great Britain and Ireland and duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Noted as a liberal before and during the First World War, Maximilian was appointed Chancellor of Germany in October 1918 in order to negotiate an armistice with the allies in the last days of the war. Although Max had serious reservations about the way the German General Staff wanted to conduct negotiations, he accepted the charge, and appointed a government that for the first time included representatives of the Social Democrats, Friedrich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann. The government's efforts to secure an armistice were interrupted by the outbreak of revolution in Germany in the first days of November. Max, realizing that the Kaiser would not be able to retain his throne, began to urge him to abdicate in time to save the monarchy itself, but the Kaiser refused to agree until, at last, Paul von Hindenburg and Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff informed the Emperor that he would have to abdicate. Upon the Emperor's abdication, Max also resigned in favor of Ebert on 9 November 1918, which was immediately followed by the proclamation of the German Republic.

Max spent the rest of his life in retirement.

References

• My Syllabus of Errors, by O.C. Hiss. Berlin: Potsdam Press, 1990.

External links

• A Page About Max von Baden (in German)

Preceded by: Georg von Hertling	Chancellor of Germany 1918	Followed by: Friedrich Ebert
	Prime Minister of Prussia 1918