He was the youngest child of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and his wife Archduchess Gisela of Austria.

During World War I, like his older brother Georg, Konrad served in the Royal Bavarian Army mainly on the Eastern Front.

[1] From 3 December 1917 until the end of the war, he served as commander of the 2nd Heavy Cavalry Regiment "Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria" (Königlich Bayerisches 2.

The couple had two children: At the end of the Second World War, Prince Konrad was arrested by the French military at Hinterstein, brought to Lindau and temporarily interned in the hotel Bayerischer Hof, together with among others, the German Crown Prince Wilhelm and the former Nazi diplomat Hans Georg von Mackensen.

Princess Bona who worked during the war as a nurse, stayed afterwards with her relatives in Savoy, prohibited from entering Germany, she was not reunited with her family until 1947.