Franz, Duke of Bavaria, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Pretender to the Bavarian throne
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Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
About Franz, Duke of Bavaria
- Franz, Duke of Bavaria (German: Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern; born 14 July 1933) is 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 until deposed in 1918. Franz was born in Munich.
- During the Second World War, the Wittelsbachs were anti-Nazi.
- The family initially left Nazi Germany for Hungary but were eventually arrested when Germany invaded the country in 1944.
- Franz was only 11 at the time.
- He spent time in several Nazi concentration camps, including Oranienburg and Dachau.After the war, he was a student at the University of Munich and became a collector of modern art.
- Franz succeeded as head of the House of Wittelsbach, and as pretender to the Bavarian throne, on the death of his father in 1996.
- He lives at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich.
- Franz is not married.Were it not for the Act of Settlement 1701, Franz would be the successor to the British crowns of the House of Stuart.
- This is not a claim he has advanced, however.
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