Johannes Dümmler

**Johannes Dümmler** is the former President of the Volksvertretung. Before then, he served as the MV for Kronenhügel as a Nationalistische and Neue Wälde as both a Liberale politician and an Independent.

## Johannes Dümmler

### Affiliation

Nationalistische Partei (1920-1924)Liberale Partei (1926-1930)

Independent (1930-Present)

### Occupation

MV for Kronenhügel, 1920-1924MV for MV for Neue Wälde, 1926-1932

President of the Volksvertretung, 1932-Present

## Early Life

### Childhood

Johannes Dümmler was born on the Roessisch island of the German Empire in 1889.

The Dümmler household was a wealthy family; his father was a prestigious German lawyer, but also a Roessisch independence activist. His mother was a Danish school teacher. Despite this, Dümmler was largely homeschooled by both his father and his mother. The young Johannes Dümmler, it seemed, was destined to become a lawyer much like his father before him.

## Military Career

### Outbreak of The Great War

Despite preparations to become a lawyer, the young Dümmler's destiny changed when he joined the Imperial German Army in the outbreak of the Great War.

In the Great War, Dümmler's ideals eventually came into fruition. In one instance, during Operation Lionheart, Dümmler welcomed and sheltered Entente soldiers and acted as an agent against the Germans. He believed that an Entente capture of the island could potentially lead to an independent nation - and thus came true. Along with other prominent activists such as Dominik Schrek, Dümmler used the surrender of the island to the Entente forces as a bargaining tool over Britain, in an attempt to appease them into granting independence to the island. In the resulting Treaty of Versailles after Germany's surrender, the island was established as the Roessen Republic - just as Dümmler's father wanted before him.

## Political Career

### Elected into the Volksvertretung

It soon became clear that law was not going to be Dümmler's profession. Instead, he turned swiftly to politics.

In 1920, aged 31, Dümmler was elected MV for Kronenhügel in the Nationalistische Partei, but became disenfranchised with the NP's initial monarchist and reactionary stance. He was re-elected in 1922, but left the party at the wake of the 1924 federal election.

He spent two years as a personal adviser to the President, before re-entering MV politics in 1926, becoming the MV for Neue Wälde as a Liberale Partei politician. He became a vocal opposition to the NP's monarchistic stance, and a vocal critic of the rise of Hitler in Germany. In 1930, aged 41, Dümmler resigned from the Liberale Partei and ran for MV of Neue Wälde again as an independent, winning the constituency with a slim margin.

### President of the Volksvertretung

In 1932, Dümmler expressed interest in running for the Präsident der Volksvertretung, widely supported by President Arnold Heydrich. Heydrich saw no other fitter than Dümmler to take the role. In 1932, he was appointed as the new PDV and has overseen two federal terms as the Speaker. He intends to carry on with this occupation, promising impartiality with his independent stance and efficiency in the Kammer.

## Volksvertretung Shooting

At the end of a parliamentary session on the 25th January 1937, gunshots were heard outside of the chamber, causing people to run for safety. An unknown suited assailant was seen to have fired several rounds of ammunition at several of the members, including **Johannes Dümmler** and Henrich Recht who were killed immediately. During the panic and alarm, the intruder was able to step back into the darkness and escape unnoticed by Volksvertretung security.

On the 10th March later that year, the Dümmler household has given him a private funeral as per his wishes as politicians from across the country paid their respects to Johannes Dümmler.