AHC/WI - German Constitutional Monarchy under Eitel Friedrich, Oskar or Adalbert

The following is inspired by the OTL reputed Anti-Nazi stance of Wilhelm II's other sons specifically Eitel Friedrich, Oskar and Adalbert.

In the unlikely scenario of Germany becoming a constitutional monarchy after WW1 (let alone post-WW2), the challenge is to get either one of Wilhelm II's other sons mentioned above to succeed him as figurehead King.

Bonus points if one of the above (or even a surviving Joachim) dies in suspicious circumstances likely by the Nazis who proceed to pick either Crown Prince Wilhelm (his predecessor's reign being cast as illegitimate and his ascension to the throne viewed as a historical corrective) or August Wilhelm as a successor more supportive of Nazism. Thereby leading the other surviving Anti-Nazi Princes to flee the country until the aftermath of WW2, where one of them takes over as King and acts as a stabilizing force during the post-war era onwards.
 
Germany has been constitutional monarchy since 1871. Germany might remain as monarchy after WW1 but Germany should win that or then war should be shorter.

And why to skip crown prince Wilhelm? And after WW2 there was too his sons as kaiser candidates but restoration after WW2 is quiet unlikely altough not totally impossible but you need some earlier POD.
 

NoMommsen

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Dear @Masked Grizzly , by the laws of succession within the house of Hohenzollern its chief being despite his exillation Wilhelm II after Wilhelm came the crown prince, then the sons of the crown prince and only then - as long as the crowns prince' sons don't have own children already - came the crown prince' brothers Eitel Friedrich, Oskar, Adalbert.

So, ... to make your idea happen you would have to actually kill Wilhelm II (who would never allow any family member to violate the house' laws), the crown prince Wilhelm III and the latters sons.
... something like what happened to the Romanow familiy ...
 

NoMommsen

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... something like what happened to the Romanow familiy ...
You might have to create a somewhat different revolution taking place in Germany for that ... somehow manage for Kaiser Bill not fleeing to the Netherlands also and manage to actually somehow let the royal family somehow 'come together' for such a coup to be successfull (killing the familiy of the crown prince as well as Kaiser Bill).
 
The following is inspired by the OTL reputed Anti-Nazi stance of Wilhelm II's other sons specifically Eitel Friedrich, Oskar and Adalbert.

In the unlikely scenario of Germany becoming a constitutional monarchy after WW1

It isn't that unlikely, Ebert supported the monarchy and was satisfied with the concessions given to him by Wilhelm in October 1918. The most difficult question is how to pursuade the allies that the Hohenzollerns should be able to retain their throne in Germany and the respective monarchies. An imperial regency might work as Ebert wanted von Baden to assume that role until another successor could be crowned. Some cousin in another monarchical house could serve in that role and I am quite sure the allies dropped the issue as long as France got her pound of meat and Britain/allies defanged her military power.

I don't think the issue of German monarchy was nearly as important as some suggest on this board.
 
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It isn't that unlikely, Ebert supported the monarchy and was satisfied with the concessions given to him by Wilhelm in October 1918. The most difficult question is how to pursuade the allies that the Hohenzollerns should be able to retain their throne in Germany and the respective monarchies. An imperial regency might work as Ebert wanted von Baden to assume that role until another successor could be crowned. Some cousin in another monarchical house could serve in that role and I am quite sure the allies dropped the issue as long as France got her pound of meat and Britain/allies defanged her military power.

I don't think the issue of German monarchy was nearly as important as some suggest on this board.

Even though they are two different situations the roughest OTL parallel that comes to mind would probably be how the Spanish Crown skipped a generation between Alfonso XIII and Juan Carlos I. However in the post-WW1 German context the crown bypassing the traditional line of Hohenzollern succession to Wilhelm's other sons or even another House like the Zahringen, etc could be viewed by the Nazis and others in ATL as another Versailles-type humiliation of Germany imposed from the outside.
 
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