Awarded Romano Guardini award (2022).
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Franz, Duke of Bavaria
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern, commonly known by the courtesy title Duke of Bavaria, is the head of the House of Wittelsbach, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His great-grandfather King Ludwig III was the last ruling monarch of Bavaria, being deposed in 1918.
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business · Head of the House of Wittelsbach since 1996 · entrepreneur · art collector · politician · also Franz, Duke of Bavaria, Franz von Bayern, Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Prinz von Bayern, Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria, Herzog von Bayern, Herzog von Bayern, Franz, Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern
Born 14 July 1933 · Q251502
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2022· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
Awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2017).
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2013· 1 entry
Was held at the Schleissheim Palace near Munich
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2009· 1 entry
Left his extensive private library of 20th and 21st century art to the Central Institute for Art History in Munich
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Munich (2008).
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Awarded Order pro Merito Melitensi (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Institutionalized this network as co-founder of the Nymphenburg Talks, a platform for intercultural and interfaith dialogue that also includes Muslim representatives
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
For his decades of support work, he was the first European to receive the Duncan Phillips Award from the Washington art museum Phillips Collection, which has been awarded to collectors and donors who support museums sinc
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1996· 1 entry
After the death of his father, he changed his style to Herzog von Bayern ('Duke of Bavaria')
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1987· 1 entry
Reporters asked him about Franz's claim to the British throne
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Bayerischer Poetentaler (1980).
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1960· 2 entries
Won Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1960).
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Won: Austrian Imperial and Royal Family (1960).
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1954· 1 entry
And 1956, which became known as the "Cruise of the Kings" and were attended by over 100 royals from all over Europe
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1939· 1 entry
And his son Albrecht and his family moved back to Budapest, where they stayed in a rented apartment in the Castle Quarter
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1933· 2 entries
Born 1933-07-14.
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Shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, he sent his son Albrecht to President Paul von Hindenburg with a protest letter strongly objecting to the appointment of governors at the head of the federal states and thus th
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1923· 1 entry
Including art treasures and collections (in particular the art collection of King Ludwig I, today mostly in the museums Alte Pinakothek and Neue Pinakothek and in the Glyptothek in Munich), the Secret House Archives (tod
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