Prince Konrad of Bavaria


Prince Konrad of Bavaria 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 Royal Bavarian Army mainly on the Eastern Front.
He was promoted to Major on 10 September 1914. From 3 December 1917 until the end of the war, he served as commander of the 2nd Heavy Cavalry Regiment "Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria". He resigned from the military on 6 February 1919.

Marriage

On 8 January 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 Castello Agliè in Piedmont, Italy.
The couple had two children:

Post World War II

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

Honours

Prince Konrad received the following orders and decorations:

German states

Foreign states