Otto was a Bavarian prince who ruled as King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1833
"The Entry of King Otto in Athens" by Peter von Hess, 1839
A portrait by Gottlieb Bodmer
Men of the Royal Gendarmerie Corps which was established after the enthronement of Otto in 1833
The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the kingdom became a federated state of the new empire and was second in size, power, and wealth only to the leading state, the Kingdom of Prussia.
Maximilian von Montgelas
The Crown of Bavaria, Munich Residence
King Ludwig I of Bavaria
Aerial view of the Walhalla memorial of Ludwig I