Adal Von Sturt

Adal Von Sturt is a Conservative politician, the founder and incumbent leader of the Roessen National Party, and President of the Roessen Republic, winning the 1920 Federal and Presidential Election. He is known for his pro-capitalist, pro-unity and pro-monarchy policies.

Early Life
Adal Von Sturt was born in 1883 in Goernitz, Dornhal, to a family that had amassed a humble amount of wealth. His father was a successful entrepreneur, and had visions of his son attending only the best schools around. For most of his younger years, however, Adal cared little about the prospect of going to school, and instead dreamed of becoming a German soldier, idolising the German Empire in all its glory. He would often play war games with his friends, where he would play a German soldier, and bully the other kids that he and his friends didn't like.

When the prospect of school had finally come around in 1900, Adal's father had prepared enough money to send him to a prestige British school, of which he protested. Adal demanded he be sent to a German school instead on the mainland. This was met with both verbal and physical disagreement from his father, and Adal finally gave in. He did not enjoy school in Britain to begin with, and was said to have hated the British classmates he was with. Overtime, however, he grew content with British school, and finally came to enjoy it, as well as Britain itself. He grew large democratic and monarchic sentiments while he was there, and began to see the benefits of capitalism firsthand; this would be a particular topic of policy later in life.

Military Career
When the First World War erupted, Adal had turned 29, and enlisted for the British Expeditionary Force, leading him to the front line in France. Later, he joined the Royal Artillery Corps, and came close to death following the destruction of the first British Expeditionary Force. As the war progressed, more and more Adal witnessed the terrible horrors of the war. He lost many of his friends to German U-Boats, trench barbed wire and the machine guns that pinpointed around No Man's Land.

But not all of the war had been doom and gloom. When the United States arrived in large shifts in 1918, Adal made friends with many of the American men. It was in trenches that they told stories of fortune and American prosperity. This had furthered Adal's already growing philosophy of capitalism and prospering economic wealth.

While the war was drawing to an end and victory for the British became assured, Adal was posted to the British occupation of Roessen. When the war finished, he was one of the men to plead to lessen the harshness of the occupation. When the officer corps shunned his proposal, Adal tried more, and was threatened with a court martial punishment. Eventually, David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, signed the agreement for Roessen to be made an independent republic, and Adal was honourably discharged from the occupational army.

Acting Upon Ideals
For the first time since he originally left to join a British school, Adal returned home to Goernitz. He had now figured out his clearly defined policies and, inspired by incumbent President Dominik Schrek to act upon his political ideals, he founded the Roessen National Party. He, at first, found it difficult to campaign for his ideals following the cult of personality the President had amassed. Schrek's decision to resign, however, gave him the opportunity he needed; and he announced, in March 1920, that he would run for President in the election.

The RNP received a massive boost as a result. Soon it became clear that either way, the country would shift socialist or capitalist. He battled with Gorden Braun for the leadership spot, polling higher than him originally at 41:39, then at 40:40. When he received backing from the British Victory Party after Simon Clarke dropped out, he polled at 55% to Gorden's 45%.

Election
Adal won 1,561,781 votes, to Gorden's 1,420,782, electing Adal as the first official President of the Roessen Republic. Later on, when the Roessen Red Coalition Party won 138 out of the 278 available Congressional seats, only one seat away from an exact 50%, Adal decided to appoint Gorden as the Chancellor, and the more social-democratic Wilber Schaffel as the Vice Chancellor. All three were sworn in on the 1st July.