Maximilian, Prince Of Baden
- Maximilian, Prince Of Baden
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▪ German chancellor
born July 10, 1867, Baden-Baden, Baden [Germany]
died Nov. 6, 1929, Schloss Salem, Baden, Ger.
chancellor of Germany, appointed on Oct. 3, 1918, because his humanitarian reputation made the emperor
William II think him capable of bringing World War I expeditiously to an end.
The son of the grand duke Frederick I's brother Prince William of Baden, Maximilian in 1907 became heir presumptive to the grand duchy because his cousin the grand duke Frederick II (d. 1928) had no children. In the first years of World War I he devoted himself to the Red Cross and to work for the welfare of prisoners of war (on both sides). On Oct. 3, 1918, when Germany was on the verge of collapse, he was appointed chancellor of the empire and prime minister of Prussia in succession to Georg Hertling. He hastily superintended the constitutional changes whereby a genuine parliamentary system was at last brought into being in Germany, began negotiations for an armistice, and secured the dismissal of Army Chief of Staff Erich Ludendorff—but too late to save the monarchy. When the emperor William II would give no definite answer to Max's demands that he should abdicate in the face of the danger of Communist revolution, Max finally himself announced the abdication of the Emperor on Nov. 9, 1918. He then resigned the chancellery to the leader of the Majority Social Democratic Party, Friedrich Ebert.
Max published Völkerbund und Rechtsfriede (1919), Die moralische Offensive (1921), and Erinnerungen und Dokumente (1927; Memoirs, 1928).
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