page_title: Franz, Duke of Bavaria
section_title: Titles and styles
hierarchical_section_title: Franz, Duke of Bavaria / Titles, styles and honours / Titles and styles
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 3 Generationen Bayerisches Königshaus: Kronprinz Rupprecht, Herzog Albrecht mit Herzog Franz
context_page_description: Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern, commonly known by the courtesy title Duke of Bavaria, is the 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 11 at the time. He spent time in several Nazi concentration camps, including Sachsenhausen concentration camp, then Flossenbürg concentration camp and finally Dachau.
  After the war, Franz 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 and Berg Castle. Franz is not married.
context_section_description: Franz is traditionally styled as His Royal Highness the Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine.
  14 July 1933 – 8 July 1996: His Royal Highness Prince Franz of Bavaria
  (in Germany): Franz Prinz von Bayern
  8 July 1996 – present: His Royal Highness The Duke of Bavaria
  (in Germany): Franz Herzog von Bayern
  (by Jacobites): His Majesty King Francis II of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland
  Franz was styled Prinz von Bayern at birth. In 1996, after the death of his father, he changed his style to Herzog von Bayern ('Duke of Bavaria').
caption: Prince Franz (right) with his father Duke Albrecht (center) and his grandfather Crown Prince Rupprecht, in 1948
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