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Ludwig III of Bavaria

King of Bavaria (1845-1921) · Germany · Died at 76

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The last king of Bavaria, who seized the throne from his own cousin in 1913, led the kingdom through World War I, then fled into exile when revolution swept away 738 years of Wittelsbach rule.

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Awards

Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa
Order of the Black Eagle
Order of St. Andrew
Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky
Order of Saint Hubert
Military Order of Max Joseph
Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown
Order of Saint Michael
Military Merit Order (Bavaria)
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Pour le Mérite
Order of the Crown
Order of the Rue Crown
Military Order of St. Henry
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
Military Merit Cross
Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
Royal Order of the Seraphim
Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception
Ludwigsorden
Knight grand cross of the order of the crown of Italy
Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
Honorary Doctor of the University of Munich

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Ludwig entered the Bavarian parliament at 18 and served as a junior officer in the Austro-Prussian War, supporting electoral reforms while rising through military ranks. He ruled as regent for his incapacitated cousin Otto from 1912 until the parliament passed a law allowing him to depose Otto and take the throne outright in 1913. His short reign steered Bavaria through World War I with a conservative hand shaped by the Catholic encyclical Rerum novarum. The German Revolution of 1918-1919 dissolved the empire and abolished the Bavarian monarchy along with the other German royal houses. Fearing assassination, he fled to Hungary, then Liechtenstein, then Switzerland before returning to Bavaria in 1920 to live at Wildenwart Castle. He died the following year while staying at Nádasdy Mansion in Sárvár.

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Germany
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1845 to 1921 · aged 76

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