Among the club members, there were high-ranking persons from the nobility and the bourgeoisie, such as Duke Max in Bavaria, his son Duke Carl Theodor (the famous ophthalmologist), the Counts von Spreti and Count Maximilian of Arco-Zinneberg.

Many of them occupied influential positions at the court, in the government, in the state administration or the army: for example, the ministers Hermann von Beisler, Count August von Reigersberg or Ludwig von der Pfordten, or top officials such as Franz Xaver von Haindl, the Director of the Bavarian Imperial Mint, and Kaspar von Steinsdorf, the Mayor of Munich.

In addition, there were many scholars and university professors, such as Franz von Kobell (mineralogist and author of the Brandner Kaspar), August von Steinheil (physicist and optician) or Karl Emil von Schafhäutl (physicist and geologist).

Image 1: Some Anglia members represented Bavaria at the Frankfurt Parliament in St. Paul's Church in 1948/49. Among them were the Minister of the Arts, Hermann von Beisler, in the middle, and, in front of him, the Minister of the Interior, Gottlieb Freiherr von Thon-Dittmer, with a band-aid on his cheek, since he had been hit by a stone in the course of the protests taking place in Munich (due to Lola Montez). The representatives’ clothes are kept in the national colours black, red, gold.

Image 2: Franz Xaver von Gietl was a professor at the university hospital of Munich and the personal doctor of Max II, whom he accompanied to a meeting with Napoleon III in Paris here.

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