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(10.07.1867 - 06.11.1929) place of birth: Baden-Baden Deutsches Kaiserreich: Reichskanzler, General der Kavallerie  Maximilian Prinz von Baden was a politically moderate leader who was selected to head the Imperial German Chancellery as Reichskanzler during the final days of the Great War. Kaiser Wilhelm II. was hopeful that the prince might be capable of bringing the War to an expeditious end. Prinz Max was commissioned in 1889 as a Sekonde-Lieutenant serving in Berlin's Garde-Kürassier-Regiment. In 1903 he took command of 1. Badisches Leib-Dragoner-Regiment Nr. 20 headquartered in Karlsruhe. In 1907 he was assigned command of Baden's 28. Kavallerie-Brigade in retired from active duty in June of 1911. As the German Empire went to War in August 1914, Prinz Max was reactivated to briefly serve on General von Hoiningen's general staff at XIV. Armee-Korps headquaters. Prince von Baden had dedicated himself to his volunteer work with the Red Cross organization and as such, was an outspoken opponent of Germany's move toward unrestricted submarine warfare. Prinz Max was also an arch opponent of General Erich Ludendorff, the de facto leader of German Supreme Military Command in the final months of the German Empire. Prince Max was the one who in fact ended up dismissing Ludendorff, and he was later able to help convince Kaiser Wilhelm II. to abdicate his throne. Prinz Max von Baden was the son of the Prussian general Prince Wilhelm of Baden and spouse Maria von Leuchtenberg. Prince Max' mother Maria was the granddaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte's step-son Eugene do Beauharnais. The Prince was married to Maria-Luise von Hannover-Cumberland, and their daughter Marie Alexandra was killed during World War Two during a 1944 air raid over Frankfurt am Main. Prinz Max von Baden passed away on 6 July 1929 in Salem near Überlingen.
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