The Kriegsakademie (German for war academy) of the Bavarian Army was the military academy and staff college of the Kingdom of Bavaria, existing from 1867 to the beginning of World War I in 1914. For a better distinction to equivalent institutions of other countries like the older and ten times larger Prussian Military Academy of the Prussian Army in Berlin or the war academy of the Austrian Army in Vienna, the Kriegsakademie in Munich is commonly called Bavarian war academy.