Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden

Prince Ferdinand Maximilian of Baden ( born September 23, 1625 Baden -Baden, † November 4, 1669 in Heidelberg) was the father of the later as " Turks Louis " became known Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden.

He was the eldest son of Margrave William of Baden and Catherine Ursula of Hohenzollern- Hechingen.

Ferdinand Maximilian married on March 15, 1653 in the chapel of the Hotel de Soissons to Paris Louise Christine of Savoy - Carignan, the daughter of Thomas Francis of Savoy - Carignan, whose brother Eugene Maurice of Savoy - Carignan father of the famous Eugene of Savoy was.

Through a frivolous, abusive remark of Prince Ferdinand Maximilian of his wife, who was strongly under the influence of her mother, there was a rift between the couple. So it was that Ferdinand Maximilian had to go without his wife back from Paris in the distance, his native Baden. Louise Christine of Savoy - Carignan could not move to switch over from the glamorous French court after bathing. Ferdinand Maximilian succeeded, therefore, only to bring his Paris-born son to Baden -Baden. The result was that the young Ludwig Wilhelm grew up without his mother. In its place, the second wife of his grandfather, Maria Magdalena of Oettingen- Baldern occurred.

However, Ferdinand Maximilian could never even begin the reign of the Margraviate of Baden -Baden. Had been loaded on the common drive to hunt, to the Elector Karl Ludwig of the Palatinate the hereditary prince, whose brother Leopold Wilhelm and his father William, a gun was in the confines of the car up and smashed Ferdinand Maximilian hand - after a few days he succumbed to the gangrene and died vierundvierzigjährig. He was buried in the Collegiate Church of Baden -Baden.