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Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine by the Rhine (Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand; English: Robert Maria Leopold Ferdinand; 18 May 1869 – 2 August 1955), was the last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne.
aristocrat, army general. Born 18 May 1869 in Munich, Germany. Died 02 August 1955 in Leutstetten, Germany. Crown Prince Rupprecht was the heir to the Bavarian throne and one of Germany's most senior generals on the Western Front during the First World War.
10 de oct. de 2019 · Share. Issue Section: Book Reviews. Jonathan Boff’s unconventional biography of Crown Prince Rupprecht is the first English-language account of the military career of the heir to the Bavarian throne and one of Germany’s most senior generals in the First World War.
12 de oct. de 2018 · Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria was General Officer Commanding Sixth Army on the Western Front in 1914–15. It draws in particular on four key interactions between Rupprecht and the Oberste Heeresleitung (Supreme Command: OHL). Rupprecht offers a particularly interesting case study for two reasons. First, he straddled dual worlds.
- Jonathan Boff
- j.f.boff@bham.ac.uk
- 2018
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria was the most able of Germany’s Royal generals during the First World War. He was born in Munich in 1869 to the then Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, the future King Ludwig III. He was also a Jacobite claimant to the British throne, as he was descended from the Stuarts through Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
In examining the heir to the Bavarian throne's experience as commander of Germany's Sixth Army and Army Group Crown Prince Rupprecht, Boff provides an English language avenue to understanding how the German military viewed the First World War.
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, the German Command and Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1914–1915. Jonathan Boff. IntroductIon. Was Wilhelm merely a ‘shadow-Kaiser’, with real power vested in the traditional power structures of Prussia and Germany? Or did he exer-cise a decisive influence on political outcomes?
