Word: wittelsbach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Record. Dr. von Kahr is a Monarchist to the marrow and pins his faith on the Wittelsbach dynasty, he himself being avowedly Crown Prince Rupprecht's state agent. As Premier of Bavaria in 1921 he organized the famous Einwohnerwehr (Home Guards), which led to his resignation, because the Federal Government in Berlin professed to see in them a " grave danger to the State." He now declares that the Treaty of Versailles is dead and that the French killed it. "We have given up passive resistance, but we no longer recognize the Treaty of Versailles. The French themselves broke...
...part of various Governments to deal with a complex internal situation aggravated by still more complex foreign relations and obligations. The political currents flowing against the sides of the Government barge were strong and numerous. There were the Monarchists, whose ranks were split by the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach factions; the Communists, whose opposition to the Government was equal to that of the Monarchists; the Democratic and Center Parties, both of whom were a minus quantity so far as the Government was concerned. The cessation of passive resistance was an opportunity for the various Parties to get together...
...charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria in 1854. Empress Elizabeth was a great sportswoman; she was beautiful; moreover she had the brilliant intelligence of a Wittelsbach. From her arrival in Vienna she unwittingly offended Viennese society because she rode horseback, because she tried to simplify court etiquette, and lastly, because she had voiced an unerring predilection for Hungary and the Hungarians-a heinous offense in Austrian eyes. It was largely through the Empress that the Dual Monarchy came...
There are two monarchist parties in Bavaria. One aims at separation from North Germany and the establishment of a Kingdom; it is led by Dr. Kuehles and backed by Ludendorff. The other party is nonseparationist and aims at the restoration of the Wittelsbach dynasty with Prince Rupprecht as Emperor of Germany. The Prince is said to take no active part in royalist matters, but is ready when he considers the time ripe to make a bid for the Imperial throne. Popular opinion in Bavaria considers that Rupprecht has a very good chance...