Donald Witzenberg
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Overview
Donald Witzenberg is the current Head of State of Andrehervia. He is also the General Secretary of the Communist Shield of the Andrehervian Proletariat and the Commander-in-Chief of the Andrehervian Defence Forces.
Early Life and Politics
Donald Witzenberg was born in 1952 to a peasant family, his father being a farmer and his mother a milkmaid. The third of four children, he urked an existance in a rundown farmhouse in the South Russian sector until the age of 14, where he left school and moved to Andre City to live with his uncle. Here is began working as a market trader and began dabbling in politics, studying the works of Karl Marx. At 20 he joined the Andrehervian Communist Party and immediately impressed the leadership with his ruthlessness and determination. Three years later, when Witzenberg had acheived the position of leader of the ACP in the Central Gonard region, the ACP was shut down by security forces under the orders of the extreme right-wing Albert Smithson, who had recently seized power. Witzenberg was forced to go into hiding in the south of the Gonard Peninsula. He continued working for the now illegal underground ACP whilst using the job as a fisherman as both a source of income and a profession. He also changed his name to Gilbert Rothwell. In 1983 he married to his girlfriend of 5 years, Laura Gilani, and has since had five children: Basil, 20; Josef, 17; Elaine, 14; Jeremy, 11 and Anne, 8. In 1993 he cancelled his membership to the ACP, complaining that the bureaucracy and inefficiency of the ACP was slowing down its' development. He was unable to return to normal life, however, for he had been marked down as a dissident
Fall of Smithson
In 1999, still working as a fisherman, a popular revolt managed to oust Smithson and was replaced by Jim Southern, a more moderate leader who allowed the reformation of parties dissolved under Smithson and removed names blacklisted for member ship to them, including that of Witzenberg's. Because of this, Witzenberg and his family moved north to Hage where he started a job as a technician. In 2001, after hearing of his accomplishments and skills from another ex-APC member, the Communist Shield of the Andrehervian Proletariat contacted him and asked for his membership, telling him of their ambitions and their manifesto. He signed up straight away.
Rise to power
Witzenberg worked as an adviser to the then-leader of the CPSE Nicholas Turquoise at which point had 12 members. He was instrumental is gaining support for the CPSE and in getting its membership from ten to 800,000 and as such was an important and trusted friend of Turquoise.
In 2001, before the beginning of the uprising in 2002, Witzenberg was selected to enter Jim Southern's party as a sleeper agent in order to overthrow him if the popular revolt failed. In the three years up to the revolution, Witzenberg proved himself as a capable and trusted man and was quickly brought up to the position of Deputy Minister of Defence. After Turquoise's death, Witzenberg finished his work by ordering Southern to transfer power to himself at gunpoint.
Events since
Despite Witzenberg's short time in power, he had made a small number of acheivements. First of which is Operation Evenstone, where thousands of subversives and dissidents were arrested by Andrehervian security forces. The second is his decisive handling of the Kourtfield nuclear disaster, where his decisions led to the quick evacuation of Kourtfieldville, the cleanup of the site and the halt of radiation. He also aided North Germania in their conquest of Aequatio and The WIck (which ended before they even began) and in March 2005 passed legislation giving the French, German, Russian and Japanese languages official use in local lawmaking and other legislative procedures.
