Herzog Bernhard III. Von Sachsen-Meiningen (1851-1928): Zwischen Erwartung Und Realität

He was musically gifted, educated, had a brilliant military career and was the brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Duke Bernhard III stayed on. von Sachsen-Meiningen (1851-1928) did not have time to develop his talents in government: his father, Meiningen's theater duke Georg II, ruled for 48 years. On the same June 28, 1914, when Georg was buried in Meiningen and Bernhard took over the reign of the Duchy, the shots rang out in Sarajevo. In the First World War he could only act as a military until he was forced to abdicate by the revolution in 1918 after only four years on the throne. The present volume addresses various facets of the person and rule of Bernhard III. to. The image of the last Duke of Saxony-Meiningen thus gains sharper contours between expectation and reality.