Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

Duke Adolf Friedrich of Meckleburg is a German Politician who is the Governor-General of South Germany which he is successful at the job due to having knowledge of the continent as an explorer and being Governor General of Togoland. He was a candidate for being the Grand Duke of the United Baltic Duchy until he refused saying he has no heirs to the throne and that he would prefer to be the Reichkommissar of the United Baltic Duchy as he and his deputy Pytor Wrangel will elect the Grand Duke who was William I.

## History

### Early Life

Born in Schwerin, Adolf Friedrich is the third child of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1842–1883), and his third wife Princess Marie Caroline of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850-1922). He went to school in Dresden, Saxony, and joined the Prussian Guards Cuirassiers afterwards. After an accident in 1898, he left active military sevice and only worked as a commander for the cavalry.

After his *Abitur* in 1894, he went on his first journey. In the Middle East, he traversed the route Jerusalem-Damascus by horse. In the aftermath, he visited Anatolia, Thrace, Bulgaria and Hungary, and then returned to Germany. All in all, he covered a distance of more than 2500 kilometres by horse.

### Explorer in Africa

From 1907–1908, Adolf Friedrich led a scientific research expedition in the region of the Great Rift Valley and traversed across Africa from east to west. In 1908 he was awarded the Eduard Vogel Medal of the Association of Geography of Leipzig. Also, in German East Africa, an active volcano was named in his honor "**Adolf-Friedrich-Kegel**" (Adolf-Friedrich volcano).

From 1910–1911, he led an expedition to Lake Chad and the northern rivers of the Congo up until the Nile in British Sudan. Adolf Friedrich and his companions explored the then little-known primeval forest region of the Congo tributaries and the basin of Lake Chad. Individual groups extended their explorations to the Bahr el Ghazal near the upper Nile, while others travelled to southern Cameroon and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea. ***Vom Kongo zum Niger und Nil*** ("From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile"), a two-volume work based on the 1910–1911 expeditions, has an excellent reputation today for its detail and images. The insects from his expeditions can be found in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, two of Europe's most prestigious Natural History Museums.

From 1912–1914, Adolf Friedrich was the governor of Togoland in German West Africa and German Consul for French Dahomey & British Gold Coast. When Togo was conquered by British troops during the early weeks of the Weltkrieg, Adolf Friedrich was on vacation in Mecklenburg and thus not present when he was dismissed as governor of the colony.

### Japan turns Persia into "a Japan on Steroids"

During World War I, Adolf Friedrich fought in the armies of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. In early 1916, he was sent to Ottoman Mosul as part of the German-Persian military mission. However, soon conflixts emerged with Ottoman and Persian authorities who feared that Germany wanted to expand its influence into Persia and establish a Persian colony after the war. Following that, Adolf Friedrich was dismissed in June and returned to Germany.

Sadly he felt that his dismissal was the worst thing to happen when Japan overthrew the Persian Authorities and placed in a Military Warlord as a Emperor and trained Persia's Military in the style of the Japanese Military and they had outrageously easy conquests of Oman, the Trucial States, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. He felt this dismissal was unable to do a proper military mission and now Persia is nothing more than Japan on Steroids. He even compared Reza Shah to being a Julius Caesar on Steroids.

### Candidacy for Grand Duke of the United Baltic Duchy

He was elected to be the Grand Duke of the United Baltic Duchy, but he neglected the position because he knew he has no heirs that might appease the Balkans so he decided to become Reichkommissar of the United Baltic Duchy with German Baltic General of the Russian Army Pytor Wrangel as his Prime Minister. The two have elected William, Prince of Hohenzollern as the Grand Duke as William accepted and became William I. During his tenure, Adolf planned to make the United Baltic Duchy a Dual Monarchy with 2 Parliaments and 2 Prime Ministers (1 Parliament and Administration represents Latvia and the other represents Estonia) because William I felt it would be better if his Realm was a Dual Monarchy to stabilize it and prevent Latvian and Estonian Rebellions. He left the Position of Reichkommissar of the United Baltic Duchy and gave the position to his deputy Pytor Wrangel who appointed the first Prime Minister of Latvia and the First Prime Minister of Estonia.

### Becoming the Governor-General of South Germany

Duke Adolf was then appointed Governor-General of South Germany as he had taken the position to rule in the realm he is perfect in Africa. He went to the Colony's capital Dar-es-Salam and started to do business as Governor-General. He met with the three Statthalters of Nordafrika, Mittleafrika and Sudafrika and various Native Rulers such as Solomon kaDinuzulu, King of the Zulus.

The Black Liberation Army crisis in the eyes of Duke Adolf was problematic especially for their racist and socialist Ideology and hopes they don't reach the vast South Germany. He also thinks they could be problematic due to Adolf Hitler the cynical deputy of Ludendorff trying to frame them for killing Jews as an excuse to go to war with them.

## Marriage

On 24 April 1917, Adolf married Princess Victoria Feodora of Reuß-Gera (1889-1918)*,* the oldest daughter of Heinrich XXVII of Reuß-Gera. She died one day after the birth of their only daughter, Princess Woizlawa Feodora, in December 1918 in Rostock. Adolf was on a visit in Riga at that time and thus was not present at the birth of his first child and the death of his wife. Adolf has since stayed unmarried, a fact that has worried many people in the duchy and in Germany, as the succession laws are not entirely clear. In fact he even neglected candidacy due to those worries and gave the position of Grand Duke of the United Baltic Duchy to William I.

He has one daughter from Princess Victoria Feodora of Reuß-Gera.

* Princess Woizlawa Feodora (b. 1918)