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King Ludwig II of Bavaria

(1845-1886)

Sometimes called the Swan King, his interests were in art, music, and architecture. It is known from his diary (which began in the 1860s), private letters, and other surviving personal documents that he had strong homosexual desires. He struggled all his life to suppress those desires and remain true to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Homosexuality had not been punishable in Bavaria since 1813, but the Unification of Germany in 1871 instated Paragraph 175, which criminalized homosexual acts between males under Prussian hegemony. He never married nor had any known mistresses.

The king had affairs with the soldiers who guarded him, which were gossiped about but not reported in the mass media. He had a succession of close friendships with men, including his chief equerry and master of the horse, Richard Hornig, the Bavarian prince Paul von Thurn und Taxis, the Hungarian theater actor Josef Kainz, and his courtier Alfons Weber.

 

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