Wilber Schaffel

Wilfred Bernard Moritz, more commonly known as Wilber Schaffel, was a Liberal politician who served as both Vice Chancellor and Chancellor. Wilber's Chancellorship was met with controversy, due to his knowledge of the death of his predecessor, Gorden Braun, because of his relation to his brother, Wilhelm Moritz, who had conducted the assassination. Wilber was a very private politician; while serving as both Vice Chancellor and Chancellor, he had been an active homosexual despite being married, and the adoption of his surname, Schaffel, came from his first male lover. Wilber was fundamental in the formation of the new electoral system. He died from an incurable and unknown illness before the 1922 Federal Election.