Background
Adalbert was born in at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Bavaria. He was the second son of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and his wife Infanta María de la Paz of Spain.
Diplomat writer Ambassador of Germany to Spain
Adalbert was born in at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Bavaria. He was the second son of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and his wife Infanta María de la Paz of Spain.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
As most of his peers, following the Abitur, Adalbert joined the Bavarian Army and remained an officer throughout the First World War. He served with the artillery as a battery commander and later as a General Staff Corps and a cavalry officer on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. After Germany’s defeat in 1918, Prince Adalbert left the military and began study history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Later publishing several works on Bavarian and royal history.
With the Army Group C, he took part in the German invasion of France, but his return to the German Army was short lived. In early 1941, Prince Adalbert was relieved from all combat duties as a result of the so-called Prinzenerlass.
Later, in May 1941, Prince Adalbert was cashiered from the military and withdrew to the family castle Hohenschwangau in southern Bavaria, where he lived for the rest of the war. After the war he worked shortly for the Bavarian Red Cross office and in 1952 was appointed by Konrad Adenauer as the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Spain.
He remained in this post until 1956.
On 12 June 1919 Prince Adalbert married Countess Augusta von Seefried auf Buttenheim (1899-1978), the daughter of Count Otto von Seefried auf Buttenheim and Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria. Prince Adalbert of Bavaria died on 29 December 1970 at Munich and is buried at the Andechs Abbey cemetery in Bavaria.
By this decree, Hitler ordered that all members of the former German reigning royal houses were forbidden from joining or participating in any military operations in the Wehrmacht.