Moltan Bausch
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Moltan Bausch is the Ambassador to the United Nations for the Sultanate of Gruenberg, and heads the Gruenberger Office of UN Affairs. He has held the office ever since Gruenberg's re-entry into the UN following the defeat of the Transgender Equality Act.
A staunch conservative, he has become an increasingly dogmatic proponent of the principle of national sovereignty, a source of some criticism. He is known for his abject lack of a social life, quasi-fetishistic obsession with the Law of the Sea, and avowed hatred of environmental legislation. And dolphins.
Biography
Moltanus Keinhart Bausch was born in The 688th Year in Kemf Waaschtechen, a small mining town in Stammerslab. He was the first of four children of Eisodor and Krakalopowot Bausch, wealthy textile merchants. From an early age it was clear that he would be suited to a career in the Gruenberger diplomatic corps: he is reported to have enjoyed setting his younger siblings' hair on fire, and was expelled from the exclusive Raasbeh Academy For Little Lords at age eight for stabbing a classmate in the neck with a wooden sword.
He attended the prestigious Wellen School. A popular and outspoken pupil, he was promoted to Cadet Warrant Officer and senior student NCO in the school cadet force. He instituted the now famous 'Wena's Day Parade', on which the entire corps would complete a solemn three hour procession around the quad before going on a violent rampage through the local town. He also had his first experience of rhetoric when he was forced to explain trading the debate team's minibus for a month's supply of frozen yogurt. He then spent a year travelling the world, and then enrolled in the University of Flurthwel.
University
In a recent interview with The Gruenograph, Bausch stated that his time in Flurthwel was 'rather uneventful...certainly no more interesting than any other student of the time'. This may be a fair reflection of his academic accomplishments - originally registered to read Political Science, he ended up taking a minor second in Modern Languages - this omits to mention his considerable extra-curricular activity. He attracted considerable initial attention, much of it unfavourable, for his stiffly-worded articles in the student magazine, The Fluzy, whose editor eventually dismissed him, and then led a succession of high-profile campaigns, firstly resigning his commission in the Officer Training Corps after they dropped entry requirements to allow non-Wenaists to serve, and then boycotting the student canteen until they were forced to fire one of their chefs, a member of the Gruenberg National Communist Party.
After graduation, he stayed on, nominally to do postgraduate studies, although it is unclear what he actually researched, and spent most of his time engaged in political activism. He was campaign manager for the National Conservative Assembly candidate Johas Williwilli in the mayoral elections of The 709th Year, and treasurer of Chair of Flurthwel's 'Bogroff For Gruenberg' municipal committee. At the time of the award of his MPhil, he had already accumulated a weight of experience, and was being tipped for political office, despite his refusal to join a party.
The Gelzien Nub
In The 711th Year, fighting between government troops and insurgents in the Gelzien Nub intensified, and Bausch accepted a commission into the High Sultanic 42nd Engineers. He was posted to a garrison in West Gelzia, and served with distinction for 18 months. He was involved in the storming of the rebel-held town of Majenka, for which he received the Gruen Cross. Later in the year he suffered a shrapnel wound, and was honourably discharged on medical grounds. He remained in The Gelzien Nub, however, first working for the security division of a freight shipping company, and then taking up a post in the Financial Department of the Provincial Administration Bureau. He shuffled around several departments, but was eventually appointed Deputy Secretary of Administration for the Commission on Disarmament (COD).
During his time with the Commission, he advocated the use of force, and the extension of police rights at the expense of civil liberties, in the search for and destruction of insurgent armaments. By The 716th Year he had been appointed to the Chair of the Commission, submitting a 637 page document detailing thousands of armaments the survey teams had discovered and destroyed. He continued on in the position for two years before the Commission was disbanded. He returned to Naffarron briefly, and was then picked by the Gelzien governor, Borbot Von Nuggles, to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Mayoral Office at Rohansas. Barely six months in, however, Bausch resigned in protest at the election of liberal candidate Mehett Cahai: some have suggested that he was preempting his inevitable dismissal for engaging in political campaigning (for the conservative Gursch Treill). His association with the troubled province ended a year later, when he retired from the position of Campaign Finance Chair for Treill's gubernatorial bid amid allegations of corruption.
Diplomatic Service
Returning to Flurthwel, Bausch immediately enrolled in the Grak School of Diplomacy, graduating in the summer of The 720th Year. With his history of bigotry, violence, unguarded comments and massive corruption, he was viewed as having immense promise, and was given an administrative post in the Gruenberger embassy in New Greater Tibet. He was widely praised for his role in negotiating increased access to uranium resources for Gruenberger mining concerns, and was heavily involved in the drafting in the Restrengthening Of Old Bonds mutual aid pact between the two nations. The latter act earned him a promotion to Senior Assistant to the Ambassador.
In The 724th Year, relations soured between Gruenberg and New Greater Tibet after a minor border dispute, and the mission was temporarily recalled. Bausch wasted no time finding an alternate placement, transferring to the Gruenberger Consulate in Gurglestan, where he served as Deputy Pro-Consul for two years, during which time he oversaw and co-signed the Economic Stabilisation And Reconciliation Treaty (ESART). He was appointed to serve on the Oversight Committee, and was listed as co-author of the first Structural Assessment Report (SAR1, The 726th Year).
The following year he returned to Flurthwel to take up a government position. He served in the Diplomatic Service Internal Affairs Unit for a year, where he kicked up a minor fuss through his unrelenting efforts to have the new Ambassador to New Greater Tibet, Rohono Rahinu, removed from office and prosecuted for "gross moral indecency".
Bausch in the UN
In the wake of the failure of the Transgender Equality Act, Sultan Gardab Woltzen IV announced his intention to return Gruenberg to the United Nations. Having lost faith in his nephew,
