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Prince Maximilian of Baden
Chancellor of Germany
In office 3 October – 9 November 1918
Preceded by	Georg Graf von Hertling
Succeeded by	Friedrich Ebert
Born	10 July 1867(1867-07-10)
Died	6 November 1929 (aged 62)
Political party	None

Prince Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm of Baden (Max von Baden) (10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929) was the cousin and heir of Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden (being the eldest son of his uncle Prince Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden), and succeeded Frederick as head of the Grand Ducal House in 1928. He was also a first cousin twice removed of Napoleon III, with whom he shared a stricking resemblance. He was married to Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland, eldest daughter of Ernst Augustus II of Hanover and Thyra of Denmark. In 1918 he served as the 8th Chancellor of Germany.

Maximilian was born in Baden-Baden.

Noted as a liberal before and during the First World War, he was appointed Chancellor of Germany in October 1918 in order to negotiate an armistice with the allies in the last days of the war. Although he had serious reservations about the way the German General Staff wanted to conduct negotiations, he accepted the charge, and appointed a government that for the first time included representatives of the Social Democrats, Friedrich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann.

The government's efforts to secure an armistice were interrupted by the outbreak of revolution in Germany in the first days of November. Maximilian, realizing that the Kaiser would not be able to retain his throne, urged him to abdicate in time to save the monarchy itself, but the Kaiser refused to agree, even though Paul von Hindenburg and Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff urged the same course of action.

Then Maximilian announced the abdication without the Kaiser's consent, and resigned in favour of Ebert on 9 November 1918. This was immediately followed by the proclamation of the German Republic.

Prince Maximilian spent the rest of his life in retirement. He died at Salem in 1929.

He and Maria Luise were parents to two children:

• Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (August 1, 1902 - January 29, 1944). Married Prince Wolfgang Moritz of Hesse-Cassel, a son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Margarete of Prussia. Marie Alexandra was killed in a bombing of Frankfurt by the Allies of World War II.

• Prince Berthold, Margrave of Baden (February 24, 1906 - October 27, 1963). Married Princess Theodora, Margravine of Baden, a daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Prince Berthold was the brother-in-law of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

• My Syllabus of Errors, by O.C. Hiss. Berlin: Potsdam Press, 1990.

• A Page About Max von Baden (in German)

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