Later Life
Prince Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, spent the rest of his life in retirement. He rejected a mandate to the 1919 Weimar National Assembly, offered to him by the German Democratic politician Max Weber. Together with Kurt Hahn, he established the Schule Schloss Salem boarding school in 1920.
In 1928, following the death of Grand Duke Frederick II, Maximilian became head of the House of Baden. He died at Salem the following year.
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