Franz August of Fengelia

### Title

High Emperor of the Fengelians, King of the Hein, Duke of Straussland, Lord-Protector of Fengelberg

### HoG

Georg von Reinerbach (first)
Karl von Horwitz (current)

## Personal Info

### Issue

Crown Prince Wilhelm
Princess Alberta
Princess Juliana
Prince Franz Heinrich
Prince Martin

### Religion

Northern Chtillism

**Franz August** *(Franz August Alexander Wilhelm von Hein-Fengelberg;* 1029-*)* is the fourth and reigning Emperor of the Fengelians, as well as King of the Hein, Duke of Straussland and Protector of Fengelberg. He took the throne following the disastrous end of the Sixth Fengelo-Aulmierrese War, and prevented the collapse and disintegration of the Fengelian Empire in the 1053-54 Crisis, though at a cost of hundreds of lives and through increased authoritarianism and autocracy

## Biography

### Early life

Born in 1029, Franz August was the first son of Crown Prince Friederich and Crown Princess Wilhelmina. When Friederich took the throne and became Emperor Friederich II in 1035, Franz August was made the Crown Prince. Crown Prince Franz August was enrolled in the Halsenburg Imperial Military Academy and graduated in 1048, just in time for the Sixth Fengelo-Aulmierrese War

### Military Service and post-war crisis

Like his father, Franz August was an officer in the 13th Rifle Battalion. He fought at several battles, and by 1053 he had been promoted to Colonel. In 1053, he was recalled back to Heinstadt as his father had abdicated the throne and fled the country. Revolutions had broken out, and it appeared as if the empire would soon cease to exist. Monarchist veterans who had returned from the frontlines took up arms to fight against the socialist and republican revolutions, and Franz August became the leader of these "free corps" movements. He proclaimed himself Emperor, and appointed Georg von Reinerbach, who was then the police chief of Heinstadt and Halsenburg, as his Chancellor

Franz August's actions during the 1053-54 Crisis is widely controversial, as he sent the free corps to forcefully put an end to the Republic of Osteryern and restore the Vithausen-Ernbach dynasty, suspended the right to protest, and banned several parties whom he considered a threat to the empire. Many monarchists praise him and consider his actions "necessary to preserve the empire", while the People's Democratic Party, which is still outlawed to this day, have called him a butcher and a tyrant

### Since 1054

Following Reinerbach's death and the stabilization of the empire, Franz August appointed Larriech von Naydea, Edward von Kliffton-Eirollen and even the Social Democrat Klaus Berendt, to rebuild the country and economy. However, with the Raykorian Civil War causing international oil prices to skyrocket and Heinese deindustrialization causing unemployment and riots in the Empire's largest state, Franz August appointed monarchist hardliner Karl von Horwitz instead of the previous pacifists, who started an invasion of Raykoria

## Family

Franz August was born in 1029 as the first son of Friederich II and his wife, Princess Wilhelmina of Anzir, who was the daughter of Duke Alfred II. This makes the current duke of Anzir, Alfred III, Franz August's uncle.

Franz August married Viktoria von Rechtoff-Eisenbrück, daughter of Rechtoff Air owner Ferdinand von Rechtoff-Eisenbrück, in 1056. This was rather scandalous - despite Rechtoff-Eisenbrück's wealth and contributions to Fengelia's economy, industry and war effort, they were not royalty or nobility of high enough ranking to be Empress. Nonetheless, Franz August had the support of Chancellor Larriech von Naydea and much of the lower ranking aristo-capitalist nobility, and so the marriage went forth.

They had 5 children: Wilhelm, Alberta, Juliana, Franz Heinrich and Martin. The eldest, Prince Wilhelm, is the Crown Prince and married Princess Karolin of Ostoryern in 1082. The second eldest, Princess Alberta, married Grand Duke Leopold I of Kürheim in 1084. The third eldest, Princess Juliana, is currently engaged to her cousin Prince Harald of Anzir, who is the grandson of Alfred III of Anzir