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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
well u said u r a member of the CSU and would like Bavaria to be independent, is this right? I would have expected you to be part of a separatist group more than a centralising one, that's it.
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Well the CSU covers many Groups of Bavarians including Royalists like me, i know there is no chance for beeing independent but outside the big cities at the countryside there is still the one or the other like me.
The Kingdom of Bavaria was from 1871 - 1918 a part of the German Reich, that's true but it was more or less independent, it had its own laws, its own Army. The only thing the German Reich had authority over Bavaria was the Money (Reichsmark) and foreign Politics. The Army was independent except in war, then the Bavarian Army was under the High Command of the German Reich.
It had an modern constitution (for the times standards the most modern of all German states)with a two chambered Parliament (actually it was a copy of the british parliament consisting of a House of Lords and a House of Commons.
In 1912 Bavaria was at the edge of an constitutional monarchy all this was stopped with the beginning of the great war.
05-06-2012, 11:36 PM
no worries, apologies accepted, I often think that hot tempers and "lost in translation" moments get in the way of an otherwise interesting conversation 
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