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by Freistaat Hannover » Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:56 pm
by Endem » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:06 pm
Freistaat Hannover wrote:I'm sorry, did I miss something? Are there GeStaPo and SS? When were they introduced?
by Chewion » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:07 pm
Herador wrote:Chewion wrote:I’m letting the OP do your apps btw. That’s why I haven’t accepted but they look good imo. I have a question, would your character support Wilhelm in a soft coup?
I know I can't get a for sure answer, but how does my app look? Should I let it stand or start fleshing out idea #2?
by United Confederate States » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:51 pm
by Chewion » Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:05 pm
by United Confederate States » Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:34 pm
by Imperialisium » Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:52 pm
by Imperialisium » Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:53 pm
by Imperialisium » Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:09 pm
Herador wrote:I took some liberties with the setting to help fill in details, if any of these don't jive or if the app itself is unusable, just let me know, I have a backup.
NS Name: Herador
Character name: Christopher "Chris" Blithe
Age: 31
Picture: Far right, taken during his time working in Africa
(Image)
Description (Anything not shown in picture):
Height: 5'11
Weight: 184 lb's
Voice (Describe how it sounds): Please accept this shameless cop out
Position: American Ambassador to the German Empire
Title/Titles: N/A
Short Bio: Blithe started out as a student at the University of California Merced and was by all accounts a fairly ok student. Initially going for a BA in Philosophy, he changed it over in his second semester to a degree in international studies after an out-of-program course for credits (he maintained a General History minor). He fell in love immediately. Though he remained an average student, his zeal for the material attracted the attention of one of the senior members of the History department after Blithe befriended him. The professor managed to get him a position as a TA in a higher level course and Blithe continued to excel on his eagerness alone, spending long hours with study groups and even teaching classes. In one of these classes, after giving an at length side lecture about the relationship between the European powers and their former colonies with a fairly accurate amount of high-level analysis, a recording (made by that same professor) was sent up to a friend he had attended University with who was now working in the government. From this point forward he was being scouted by the CIA.
Graduating from UCM, he was directly recruited into the Agency, making enough of an impression to be put to work as an Operations Officer in the Directorate of Operations Africa Division after his graduation from training, where he would roam the continent for six years working from different Stations. His primary duty was to find and root out domestic terror cells in the countries he toured, largely accomplishing this through deals and diplomacy, becoming well known as the least aggressive agent in the Division by far and often called "soft". Though his methods may have been met with derision, his results spoke, and he became a fairly successful intermediary for the CIA in the Region, often working as the point of contact for groups opposing terror cells, delivering bribes to warlords, and even brokering peace between factions so he could direct them at an enemy of the United States. During this time he would work closely with German forces working peacekeeping operations, helping him cultivate ties with the Empire.
By the time he was 27, Blithe was exhausted. A life without roots and the constant mental strain put on him (largely by himself) over the course of his work, constantly using and forcing people to do work for him, often ending in their deaths, had taken its toll. Taken aside by his current station chief, he was sent home for evaluation and found to be unfit for continued field service, and was recommended for a much lower position with far lower clearance. A clear demotion. It was only through the goodwill accumulated from years of solid work that several high ranking Officers in the Africa Division facilitated his move to the Foreign Service and fast-tracked to the position of a Foreign Service Officer working as a political officer, leveraging his former experience.
His career from here is largely straightforward, moving from Embassy to Embassy, more often than not working as a go-between for the local Station Chief and the Ambassador. During this time, he met Reece Lovell, a Science Attache` with the Foreign Service who worked several of the same Embassy postings as he did. The two quickly would become quick friends and stay in contact through the internet, dating in a certain sense, before once again meeting in the US. In a move some might call gutsy and others might call stupid, Blithe took a knee and proposed. The two would have same-location postings from there on out. Three years of work would come to fruition when he was nominated as Ambassador to the German Empire, his former service with German Forces in Africa being a deciding factor. At 30 he was accepted as Ambassador by the Government of Wilhelm IV. His initial tenure was a great success and he was received warmly by the Kaiser and court, and was a common fixture at Court functions. For a year he made steady progress with the Kaiser and it was reported that the two had a warm working relationship, with Mister and Missus Blithe invited for dinners or informal meetings with Wilhelm IV and Anna several times in the last months of that year.
In the wake of the terror attack, Blithe is scrambling to make sense of the situation, all the while factions within his own government are trying to use the situation to their advantage, and more than one voice accusing him of having Clientitis because of his genuine positions regarding those affected by the tragedy.
Personality: Blithe is a contradiction: warm and genuine, but also awkward and quiet. His greatest strength is his ability to make someone feel like they have his full attention, and in all fairness they often do. When Blithe is speaking to someone, he is speaking to them, likely a product of a humble upbringing. Blithe is deeply empathetic, which was the contributing factor to his washing out in the CIA, it has become his greatest asset in the Foreign Service (when he has it under his control, of course).
Blithe is a fan of reading and digital media, as well as feeling at home when in a social situation and when he is in the moment he can be the center of the party, though later on in the night he often agonizes over the function.
He seems to buck the trappings of his office at every opportunity, which has only led to his broader appeal in the countries he is posted in. Often in a t-shirt and chinos while on the job and stubbornly wearing combat boots even in a suit, he casually chain smokes, and swears loudly and often. While this rough charm has its supporters, he can rub many the wrong way.
Misc:
The Frozen Forest wrote:NS Name: The Frozen Forest
Character name: Janik Wentzel von Hohenzollern
Age: 82
Picture:
Description:
Height: 5'6
Weight: 144 lbs
Voice (Describe how it sounds): First Clip, Bald Man
Position: Oberst
Title/Titles: Oberst of the Warsaw Feldgendarmerie
Short Bio: Janik was born as the youngest son of Prince Oskar, who was the fifth son of Wilhelm II. His birth was a surprise for the family with a twelve year gap between his birth and the birth of his brother Wilhelm-Karl. During the war with the Soviet Union a year after his birth, he was sent to live in England temporarily. He made frequent visits to England throughout his life. Janik was schooled in Berlin until the age of eight, when he began a martial education at Pion, much like his father had before him. Following his eighteenth birthday he formally enlisted in the Heer and was deployed to Namibia, where he saw action against independence-seeking separatists.
Janik spent approximately eleven years in Namibia before returning to Germany for a month long vacation. He was twenty-nine when he met Josefine von Habsburg, a member of the Austro-Hungarian Royal Family. The two fell in love and were married during that one month stay. He was assigned to Tanzania and spent another fourteen years oversees. He had by this point built a respected reputation inside Germany and a feared-ruthless one in the Colonies. He and Josephine had a single child, Fredrick a year into Janik's tour in Tanzania. He was recalled to Germany for his last and most well known assignment. He was made Oberst of the Warsaw, Feldgendarmerie, with most of the Feldgendarmerie in the Polish Territory taking orders from him.
Janik has held onto this role for around forty years. His son Frederick has emmigrated to the United States and has become estranged to Janik. His wife died five years ago and after a short period of depression he has managed to find solace in his work. Throughout his tenure as Feldgendarmerie he has been ruthless in crushing Polish resistance. He has been a close ally of the Kaisers, a loyalist to his House. When the Kaiser died and his daughter ascended to the throne, he was quietly outraged. He has been close to the Royal Family for forty years and has watched Wilhelm V and Amelia grow up. He doesn't believe that Amelia is capable of ruling the German Empire and has been preparing to help Wilhelm ascend via Coup, should he wish it.
Personality: Janik is by and large a traditionalist who has adopted modernity only to the point that it is useful to him. He is a military man who does his best to remain in good health via constant jogging and hiking and other activities. Janik believes in family, though he himself only has a single child and several grandchildren, with whom he is estranged. He has seen Amelia and Wilhelm grow up and has acted almost like a grandfather to them. He has never admitted it, but they were in fact his surrogate grandchildren, the kids he never got to see grow up. He loves them both, but he does believe that Amelia is incapable of ruling. He wishes to take her off the throne and install Wilhelm V, while also protecting Amelia from harm.
Misc: His command is informally independent of the rest of the Heer and is led by an Oberst. He commands around 12,000 Military Police throughout Poland: 8,500 in Warsaw and the rest dispersed throughout Polish Cities. He is overseen by the Kaiser, or Kaiserin in this case, though since he is a member of the Royal House and a close family member to the Royal Family, this oversight is usually foregone. Warsaw's Civilian Police force answers to him, though SS detachments in the city are beyond his control.
Endem wrote:I will be using Polish or English names for places that are IRL in Poland as I know them better than their German Equivalent if there is one ( well probably 'cause I'm a Pole but that's unrelated, and I'm awful at bio's I am much better at IC posts, the picture does not belong to me and I do not plan to use it in any commercial way
NS Name: Endem
Character name: Adam Van Kurschen
Age: 45
Picture:
Description (Anything not shown in picture): I think everything is shown
Height: 1.70 meters
Weight: 68kg
Voice (Describe how it sounds): A little bit on the rough side
Position: Reichminister of Defense
Title/Titles:Major, Reichminister of Defense
Short Bio: Born in 1975 in Warsaw to small family tied to Polish nobility, Adam was utterly fascinated by German culture and when he was 20 decided to try and be more German, he tried to do it by going to such extents as changing his last name from Kurski to Van Kurschen. His education was of the higher ones that ended with him graduating on Jagielonski University in Krakow in the fields of strategy and politic related ones. Adam served briefly in military earning himself the rank of Major. He started his career in politics very fast and climbing even faster as his fiery speeches about the threat that the Soviet Union possess is too big and the German nation needs to arm themselves against the ever-growing Soviet threat, earning himself in most recent elections into Reichstag a position of Minister of Defense, he prefers not to stay in Berlin even with his fascination for German culture he prefers living in his small residence in a small village near Warsaw and goes there whenever he can. He is now currently heading for Berlin to propose a trade agreement with the ambassador of Great Britain for the purchase of newest generation tanks.
Personality: a Choleric and an Extravert
Misc:
His absolute idol is Hitler ( however wrong it may sound )
by Herador » Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:34 pm
by Imperialisium » Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:51 pm
Herador wrote:Hype for an OC, this should be neat-o. I do have a question though: would the US have the level of power and influence it has in modern day? Because I can see a pretty good reason they would put a CIA man in as US Ambassador to Germany if so, to manage the possible powder keg in Europe and try to mitigate a possible war.
If this doesn't jive, again just let me know, but it's an interesting angle to take him in initially and I feel like I can do some good writing with that.
by Herador » Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:06 am
Imperialisium wrote:Herador wrote:Hype for an OC, this should be neat-o. I do have a question though: would the US have the level of power and influence it has in modern day? Because I can see a pretty good reason they would put a CIA man in as US Ambassador to Germany if so, to manage the possible powder keg in Europe and try to mitigate a possible war.
If this doesn't jive, again just let me know, but it's an interesting angle to take him in initially and I feel like I can do some good writing with that.
The US would be powerful just not as far reaching globally. Since NATO wouldn’t have formed and no real Cold War due to the Soviets getting their teeth kicked in during the 40s by a united Europe.
So an ambassador that is CIA works
by Imperialisium » Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:11 am
Herador wrote:Imperialisium wrote:
The US would be powerful just not as far reaching globally. Since NATO wouldn’t have formed and no real Cold War due to the Soviets getting their teeth kicked in during the 40s by a united Europe.
So an ambassador that is CIA works
Was CIA. It was the State Department that put him there with the support of the CIA in how I imagined it, with the CIA being one of the groups trying to use him to further an agenda in-country.
by Deutschess Kaiserreich » Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:46 am
by Freistaat Hannover » Fri Feb 22, 2019 2:03 am
Imperialisium wrote:So there seems to be confusion on how the Reich would be structured. Let this be a breakdown guide:
Legislation
The Reich has two legislative organs, the Reichstag and Bundesrat, or the lower and upper houses respectively. The Reichstag is made up of 397 members elected by universal suffrage. IRL the Empire only had male suffrage for 25 and up. However in this RP after Hitler's Chancellorship in the 30's and 40's universal suffrage would be granted for men and women 18 and up.
The Bundesrat is made up of representatives from the 25 constituent member states of the Empire. Of which votes were apportioned (Prussia had the most at 17) followed by Bavaria at 6; Saxony and Wuerttemberg at 4 each; Baden, Hesse, and Alsace-Lorraine (after 1911) had 3 each; Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Brunswick had 2 each; and the smaller states of the Empire each having 1. The total number of voting members was capped at 61.
The Reichskanzler presides over the Bundesrat and is appointed by the Kaiser(in) of whom he/she is solely responsible too. The Reichskanzler had to counter-sign decrees and ordinances by the Kaiser for them to be valid and had control over cabinet level positions.
The Imperial Supreme Court
With the Kaiser never being forced to abdicate, and Hitler never becoming sole leader of Germany, the Judicial system of the Reich would essentially remain unchanged. The Kaiser held supreme judicial authority and could appoint/dismiss judges or magistrates as seen fit.
The Executive Power
The Kaiser as President of the Bundesrat and Empire as a whole held the highest executive authority. It's office was hereditary and tied to the Crown of Prussia.
Changes to Real Life History, Explained
In this world the Kaiser never abdicated, Versailles was in place but largely ignored and after the war with the Soviet's formally lifted, despite Germany basically having rebuilt itself militarily.
Hitler did become Chancellor in 1933 but never became Fuehrer. However, he did manage to hold more sway over the aging Wilhelm II and thus while he did not usurp power totally. He did manage to firmly entrench several Nazi organs into the state (or create them rather). The SS morphed over time from being a National Socialist armed wing to becoming an Ultranationalist Monarchist Paramilitary force that, after Hitler left office in 1946 due to increasingly severe Parkinsons, swore oaths of allegiance to the House of Hohenzollern. However, their power was limited to that of special policing, counter-insurgency warfare, and assisting the Reichsheer in the field during times of conflict.
The Gestapo was formally established by Hitler, but of course after his office, it was co-opted into being the formal Secret Police of the Reich under the Crown.
The Luftwaffe was formed but the Kaiserliche Marine retained it's name and thus never became the Bundesmarine and then Kriegsmarine.
The Reich after the war with the Soviet Union did form a Federation type commonwealth with its former colonies. As like in real life the British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Belgian empires began to decline. Italy however retained control under a fascist government while Spain re-annexed Morocco under Franco.
In the East the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was reformed as a buffer against the Soviet Union with Ukraine also being separated. Romania formally has Bessarabia and parts of RL South-Western Ukraine. Bulgaria also retained parts of Greece and Yugoslavia was balkanized and divided up. As Yugoslavia did go Communist and thus defeated along with the Soviets.
Fast forward to the 2010's and Belgium is having it's government crisis. However, unlike RL things went to the extreme and literally the country came apart at the seems. Flanders voluntarily joined the Netherlands, France took the French speaking parts, and Walloonia joined Germany.
Another quirk of this timeline is that Nuclear bombs never proliferated. The bombs never dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So while Nuclear Power exists there isn't a ton of Nuclear ordinance lying around due to the Manhattan Project and Soviet nuclear program never getting as much attention as they did irl.
However, things are not totally dandy for the Germans:
-There is significant push back in Walloonia by Belgian nationalists
-Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Soviets understandably loathe each other with Polish insurgencies being intermittent in German held Western poland throughout the 60's, late 70's and present.
-Anti-European sentiment in the African colonies against the Pro-German local governments there. Calling for the dissolution of the German headed Federation.
by Freistaat Hannover » Fri Feb 22, 2019 3:31 am
by Imperialisium » Fri Feb 22, 2019 4:35 am
Freistaat Hannover wrote:(Image)
NS Name: Freistaat Hannover
Character name: Joseph "Jupp" Schmitz
Age: 57 years of age
Description (Anything not shown in picture): The black and white pic makes him look really old, but this was the most suiting picture I had.
Height: 5'8
Weight: 154 lbs
Voice (Describe how it sounds): 6:28 till 6:41
Positions:Title/Titles: Mister
- Member of the Reichstag parliament (Abgeortneter)
- Member of the German centre party (Zentrumspartei)
- Zentrum's spokesperson for defence policy (Verteidigungspolitischer sprecher)
Short Bio: Joseph Schmitz was born in a village near the Rhenish city of Bonn in 1963. His father was a rural doctor and a respected man, and his mother was a housewife. He had four brothers and two sisters, and lived in a very traditional and pious catholic family. Joseph had a very good connection with his oldest brother Karl, but he died when Joseph was only 11 years of age due to injuries sustained during an army exercise near Cologne. This hit Joseph particularly hard, and he had a stern belief that the German armed forces should work on their safety protocols, and that they should give higher standards of living to the enlisted men. Aside from changes in defence, he also believed that the influence of Prussian noblemen in the Rhineland should be decreased, so as to give the people sovereignty in their own political sphere, as well as to decrease militarism, which to Joseph was synonymous with Prussian cultural imperialism over the catholic territories.
Joseph joined the air force at the age of 17. He wasn't qualified enough to serve on an aeroplane, but his profound interest in engineering made him a good fit for a Luftwaffe field unit, where he would function as a combat engineer, practising infantry tactics while also working on aerial detection devices and anti-air equipment. He enjoyed his time there, as the Luftwaffe was seen as the most "liberal" unit. You could sometimes openly speak your mind at the air force, contrary to the kaiserliche Marine, which was strongly pro-Kaiser, and anti-Prussian sentiment could sometimes even get you killed there, or the Heer, who did have some anti-Prussian and republican soldiers, as soldiers in the Heer came from all walks of life, but officers strongly muzzled these soldiers, so that only those with pro-monarchist ideals could openly talk about it.
After going through four years of voluntary military service, Joseph went to the RWTH university in the city of Aachen, where he studied mechanical engineering. He started studying at the age of 21, and ended with a diploma at the age of 27. After getting his bachelor's degree, Schmitz got a job at Siemens, which seemed to be the right career choice. He happily continued working there as a mechanical engineer, until he decided that he wanted to join the catholic Zentrum party, to represent the people that were opressed by the Prussian system.
The Zentrum party was one of the least popular parties among the German elite, as they mostly looked down on the social-democratic SPD due to its republican ideals, and the Zentrum party because it was run by catholics, and ever since Bismarck came to power, the Kulturkampf between the Protestants and Catholics scarred the catholic regions in bitter divides between the protestant population and the catholic population.
He quickly moved up the party ranks, and eventually ran a political campaign to become the Zentrum Reichstag nominee for his constituency (or Landkreis) in Bonn. He managed to secure the nomination in his Zentrum party, and narrowly won against his rival Gregor Küppers. He was basically set to win at that point, at Bonn had nearly always had a Zentrum representative in the last 150 years. He managed to do some good political campaigning where he visited the people in his constituency, and the conversations that he had with poor workers and rural farmers that felt that they were deprived of their rights were absolutely vital to him, and strongly supported his anti-Prussian rhetoric.
He won the election in his constituency at the age of 46, and moved to Berlin, to represent his constituents there. He became a vocal opponent of the rampant militarism that was, according to him "not of this age". Although he was strongly anti-milistaristic and anti-Prussian, he was seen as a moderate conservative and Christian democrat, and gave the anti-Prussian catholic populaces of western and southern Germany a "mouthpiece" againt the Prussian opressors.
Although he was anti-militaristic, he often visited soldiers and barracks in western Germany to get a good grip on their situation. He was seen as anti-militarism, not anti-military by his followers, but Prussian lawmakers and prominent figures in society were quick to call him anti-patriotic and hateful of soldiers. To strengthen the Zentrum party's anti-militarist ideals, Joseph was given the task of being the Zentrum party's spokesperson on defense policy, which made the political situation even more heated.
Schmitz now has to take measures to protect his life against radical rightists and possible hitmen, and is trying to face off against the pro-militaristic entities of government, trying to decrease centralization as to give the Rhenish people a bigger say in their own government, and to restore greater federal law, as devised during the German rebellions of 1848.
Personality: Schmitz is a very open and friendly character to nearly everyone that he meets. He strongly believes that everybody should be protected by the law, and that Protestants and Catholics shouldn't be enemies. His friendly personality kind of shattered during his time in politics, as that really hardened him and made him feel suspicious of other people, possibly even paranoid. He's a mix between the two: Friendly to his followers and suspicious of his adversaries.
Edit: Sorry that the bio is so long.
Edit: Added a youtube video for his "voice"
by Freistaat Hannover » Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:45 am
United Confederate States wrote:so is my bio acceptable
by Deutschess Kaiserreich » Fri Feb 22, 2019 7:25 am
by The Imperial Warglorian Empire » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:45 am
by Freistaat Hannover » Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:46 pm
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