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3 unusual facts about Kingdom of Bavaria


Franciscan Sisters of Mary

Anna Katherine (later Mother Odilia) Berger was born in Regen in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Kingdom of Bavaria

From 1903 the University Education was also possible for female students.

Mauser Model 1889

Paul Mauser created two different variations of the same rifle, one with a stock strengthened with a barrel shroud and a traditional design following the layout of the 71 series in hope he might be able to overturn the commission's decision, or at least sell his design to the Kingdom of Bavaria, which adopted its own arms.


Academy of Mount St. Ursula

The nuns, who had arrived in St. Louis in 1848, had originally come from Ödenburg (now Sopron), in the Kingdom of Hungary, and Landshut, in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Adolf Dassler

Adolf "Adi" Dassler (born 3 November 1900 in Herzogenaurach, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire; died 6 September 1978 in Herzogenaurach, West Germany) was the founder of the German sportswear company Adidas.

Battles of Bergisel

The Battles of Bergisel were four battles fought between the forces of Emperor Napoleon I of France and the Kingdom of Bavaria against Tyrolean militiamen and a contingent of Austrian regular soldiers at the Bergisel hill near Innsbruck.

Bavarian Ludwig Railway

The Königlich privilegirte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ("Royal Privileged Ludwig Railway Company", later called the Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) received a concession to build a railway from Nuremberg to Fürth in the state of Bavaria on 19 February 1834.

Charles A. Stadler

Charles Albert Stadler (July 15, 1848 Germersheim, Kingdom of Bavaria – 1928 Florida) was an American politician from New York.

Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen

Born at Regensburg the second son of the Bavarian statesman Count Aloys von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (1766–1849), Johann Bernhard was destined for the Bavarian public service, his elder brother being a hereditary member of the Upper House in the parliament of Württemberg.

Duchess Amalie in Bavaria

Amalie married Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach (later Mindaugas II of Lithuania), eldest son of Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach and his second wife Princess Florestine of Monaco, on 4 July 1892 in Tegernsee, Kingdom of Bavaria.

Franz Babinger

Babinger was born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria and was already an accomplished academic and linguist by the time he had completed his secondary school studies.

Heinrich Setz

Heinrich Setz was born on 12 March 1915 in Gundelsdorf near Kronach, Upper Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Karl August Nerger

This was followed by Bavaria's Military Order of Max Joseph (28 March 1918), Knight's Cross of Saxony's Military Order of St. Henry (25 February 1918), Württemberg's Military Merit Order, and Baden's Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order.

Karl Leonhard

Karl Leonhard (March 21, 1904 in Edelsfeld, Kingdom of Bavaria – April 23, 1988 in East Berlin, GDR)

Kreisliga Bayern

The Kreisliga Bayern (English: District league Bavaria) was the highest association football league in the German Kingdom of Bavaria and, later, the state of Bavaria from 1909 to 1923.

Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik

At the insistence of the Bavarian and Prussian War Ministries (and in particular the Inspectors of the Engineering Corps) the unprofitable aircraft manufacturer was taken over by the German Government, and Gustav Otto was forced to resign from his company.

Otto Weddigen

He became one of only six non-Bavarians to receive the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph, Bavaria's highest military honor.

Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau

Princess Marie survived him by 30 years and died on 28 July 1895 in Hohenburg Castle in Lenggries in Bavaria.

Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment

The Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment (Königlich Bayerisches Infanterie-Leib-Regiment) was a household-bodyguard regiment of the Bavarian kings from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until the fall of the Wittelsbach monarchy and the subsequent disbanding of the Bavarian army.

Solomon Scheu

Solomon Scheu (January 6, 1822 Standenbühl, then in the Kingdom of Bavaria, now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - November 23, 1888 Buffalo, Erie County, New York) was an American businessman and politician from New York.


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