It belonged to the House of Wittelsbach and was built from 1828 to 1830 for Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

The successor construction was started in 1938 by Heinrich Wolff for the Reichsbank and was completed in 1951 for the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Herzog-Max-Palais filled a block of the Ludwigstraße between the former Frühlingsstraße (now Oskar-von-Miller-Ring) and the Schönfeldstraße (now Rheinbergerstraße).

The building was completed in 1951 by Carl Sattler and today houses the headquarters of the Bundesbank in Bavaria.

[5][8] German architect Erwin Schleich described Herzog-Max-Palais as "probably the most beautiful aristocratic palace that Leo von Klenze ...