Albert Heinsberg

**Albert Alphonso Wilhelm Olaf, 18th Landgraf von Hessen**, more commonly known as **Albert Heinsberg**, (May 16, 1976 -) was a Morranian businessman, lawyer, politician, and nobleman who was twice CEO of the Chi Corporation and served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between October 2022 and January 2023. Additionally, Heinsberg held corporate executive roles in a number of legal firms and was an elected member of the National Assembly of Morra between 2025 and 2030.

Born in 1976 as an heir to the landgraviate of Hesse and a member of the Heinsberg family within the House of Hesse, Albert Heinsberg attended Oxford University between 1994 and 2000, graduating with a masters degree in law. In 2001, Heinsberg was appointed as a senior counsel of the Dunsteenian legal system and granted full permission to practice law. The same year, Heinsberg formed Chi Legal Incorporated alongside his partner Peter Illich; in 2012, Heinsberg became CEO of the Chi Legal Group, a network of law firms owned by Illich and Heinsberg. In 2009, Heinsberg inherited the title of Landgraf von Hessen upon the death of his father, and became the head of the House of Hesse. In 2015, Heinsberg became the CEO of the Chi Corporation and oversaw a major corporate restructuring, as well as the purchase of Deutsche Bank by the company, before stepping down in 2022 to allow Peter Illich to resume leadership of the company following the independence of Morra.

Between October 2022 and January 2023, Albert Heinsberg served as the first secretary of state for foreign affairs for the new Morranian regime but was replaced following the election of Jean Luc Melenchon as president. In August 2023, Melenchon's government passed a law to seize control of the Chi Corporation from Heinsberg and Illich, and saw both men jailed in a series of widely condemned legal trials. In September 2024, Heinsberg and Illich were pardoned after the deposition of Melenchon, and in October 2025, both men were elected to the National Assembly of Morra as members of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. In September 2028, after the Sino-Scandinavian Development Fund took over ownership of the Chi Corporation, Heinsberg returned as chief executive officer and stepped down as a legislator in January 2030 to focus full-time on his business interests.

With the aid of Speaker of the National Assembly Peter Illich, in October 2035 Heinsberg conducted a corporate coup against the controlling shareholders of the Chi Corporation and granted a controlling stake in the company to the government, before buying back the shares to give the company self-control thanks to government stabilisation funds issued to other shareholders. During the 2039-40 Morranian political crisis, Heinsberg shifted his political support from the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy to the Democratic Party of the People and became a major financial backer of President Kairos Hemlock's election campaign. From 2042 onwards, increased speculation of Heinsberg's ties to the Venenum terror organisation forced him to make several public denials of involvement.

## History

Albert Alphonso Wilhelm Olaf Heinsberg was born on May 16, 1976 in the city of Kessel as the eldest son of Jakob and Marisa Heinsberg, themselves senior members of Heinsberg branch of the noble House of Hesse. Following the death of his grandfather in September 1982, Albert became the first in the line of succession to the county of Hesse, a retained noble title from the Kingdom of Dunsteen allowed to exist with no political power. During his childhood, Albert Heinsberg was privately educated between 1982 and 1994, before attending the University of Oxford between 1994 and 2000, where he gained both a bachelor's and master's degree in legal studies. Whilst at Oxford, Heinsberg first encountered fellow Dunsteenian Peter Illich, with whom Heinsberg would have a close life-long relationship with.

## Business and Legal Career

### Chi Legal Incorporated

In August 2001, Albert Heinsberg founded the law firm Chi Legal Incorporated (CLI) in partnership with Peter Illich and Illich's uncle Daton Illich, who was an already established legal practitioner. The same year, Heinsberg was appointed as a senior counsel of the Dunsteenian legal system and was granted the lifetime right to use the post nominal SC. After a series of major cases boosted the prestige of the law firm, Illich and Heinsberg successfully recruited a series of high profile lawyers to Chi and by 2007 the organisation had become the largest legal firm in the Brussels administrative region after expanding to include other firms under it's umbrella. In January 2012, Albert Heinsberg assumed leadership of Chi Legal Incorporated following CEO Peter Illich's promotion to CEO of the Chi Corporation, before stepping down from the role in May 2015 after himself becoming CEO of the Chi Corporation

### Chi Legal Group

In February 2008, Albert Heinsberg orchestrated the formation of the Chi Legal Group as an umbrella organisation to take over the ownership of law firms controlled by Chi Legal Incorporated. Under the new legal group, each of the legal firms were placed on an equal level to the original Chi Legal Incorporated, rather than being subsidiaries as had previously been the case. Whilst Peter Illich became CEO of the new group and retained leadership of CLI, Heinsberg founded Illich & Heinsberg Associates as a legal firm under the Chi Legal Group and served as the group's CEO until 2012. In 2009, the newly formed Chi Legal Group was hired by EuroCorp to act on behalf of the international corporation as part of a wider team of law firms representing the company; both Illich and Heinsberg played significant roles on the EuroCorp team representing their own law firms. During the early 2010s, Chi Legal Group played a crucial role in seeing legal challenges to EuroCorp's backing of the Black Eagle terrorist group being dismissed in courts of law across the world. In January 2012, Albert Heinsberg assumed leadership of the Chi Legal Group following CEO Peter Illich's promotion to CEO of the Chi Corporation, before stepping down from the role in June 2016 after himself becoming CEO of the Chi Corporation.

## Chi Corporation

### First Period: 2012 - 2022

In December 2011, Peter Illich and Albert Heinsberg led the Chi Legal Group in purchasing the investment banking form Vassen with financial aid from the Illich family and EuroCorp. The resulting takeover led to the creation of the parent Chi Corporation in January 2012 with Illich as CEO, whilst Heinsberg assumed leadership over the Chi Legal Group. Throughout the 2010s, the Chi Corporation rapidly expanded it's portfolio of subsidiary firms through takeovers in financial and legal sectors; consequently, Illich and Heinsberg became two of the richest individuals in Dunsteen due to their ownership of large amounts of company shares.

Following Peter Illich's election as a member of the Congress of Dunsteen in 2015, Albert Heinsberg became CEO of the Chi Corporation in May 2015. During the 2010s, Heinsberg continued to expand the company into the banking sector and in 2017, the company formed the Chi Banking Group after taking over Deutsche Bank. After an internal restructuring, CEO Albert Heinsberg reorganised the Chi Corporation into a tiered organisation comprised of four main layers (listed in order of seniority): the Chi Corporation executive, company groups, individual companies, subsidiaries of individual companies and local branches. Company groups comprised of as many as thirty individual companies, which in turn had control over their own subsidiaries and local branches. This restructuring decentralised power within the corporation to give relative autonomy to different branches of the corporation, whilst allowing the executives of the Chi Corporation to coordinate policy and retain overall control.

In September 2022, the city of Brussels fell to the armed forces of the Morranian nationalist Independence Alliance, which proclaimed the formation of a Transitional State with Brussels as it's temporary capital city in October 2022. With the headquarters of the Chi Corporation now being located in a breakaway state, investor faith in the company began to fall and CEO Heinsberg attempted to negotiate a settlement with the Republic of Dunsteen that would exempt Chi from any sanctions placed upon the regime, though these talks collapsed. Upon recommendation from his partner Peter Illich, Heinsberg stepped down as CEO to allow Illich to retake the reins of the company, and was instead appointed as the first foreign minister of the new Morranian state by President Werner Reinheart on October 23, 2022.

### Second Period: Jan - Aug 2023

After being replaced as foreign secretary in January 2023, Albert Heinsberg returned to Chi Corporation and was appointed as a member of the board of directors at the recommendation of CEO Peter Illich. Following their election in January 2023, the government of President Jean Luc Melenchon sought to expel the multinational corporation EuroCorp from the country to counter EuroCorp's control over the government under former president Werner Reinheart; as part of this drive, dozens of former politicians were deported or arrested, including Reinheart himself. On June 18, 2023, the government passed the *Chi Corporation Reclamation Act 2023*, which compelled Illich and Heinsberg to transfer their controlling stake in the company to the government - after attempting to resist the law through the legal system, the government initiated the *Counterterrorism Act 2022* on August 14, 2023 to designate the pair as terrorists and lawfully seize their assets. Having taken control of the Chi Corporation, the Melenchon administration dismissed both men from their roles in the company and appointed a new CEO and board of directors, before selling their shares in the company on the stock exchange to an Avalonian company.

### Third Period: 2028 onwards

Following the 2027 Global Banking Crisis, the Avalonian firm that owned the Chi Corporation defaulted on its debts and was taken over by the Sino-Scandinavian Development Fund. Under the new management imposed by the SSDF, Albert Heinsberg returned as chief executive officer of the company, whilst the Libirachi politician Avar Kriss took over the position of chairwoman of the board in her position as head of the SSDF. After an extensive debt restructuring, the SSDF sold its controlling stake in the company to a collection of Libirachi investors in December 2030, who installed Xiao Chen as chairwoman; in July 2033, Xiao returned to the Libirachi government as foreign minister and Heinsberg was appointed as chairman of the board. In October 2035, Heinsberg conducted a corporate coup by issuing hundreds of new shares in the Chi Corporation, which were then bought by the Morranian government at the direction of speaker of the National Assembly and former Chi Corporation CEO Peter Illich. In turn, the Chi Corporation purchased its controlling stake from the government for a ceremonial value of $10, leaving the corporation's CEO in direct control of the company. After CEO Albert Heinsberg's October 2035 corporate coup, the Chi Corporation became a wholly independent self-owned company. Under Heinsberg's leadership, the company was a major financial backer of both the Union of the Corporations and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy until 2036 and 2039 respectively, before shifting political affiliation to support the Democratic Party of the People in 2039 amid an ongoing political crisis. After the National Reform Act of 2040 nationalised EuroCorp for it's role in backing the dictatorial governments of Werner Reinheart and Sunil Bakshi, the Chi Corporation sought to align itself firmly with President Kairos Hemlock and has been a major source of finance for the Morranian government's civil investment scheme.

Despite strong support for the government, Heinsberg also oversaw an initiative known as "Project Conium Maculatum", which involved Chi Corporation banks being used to launder money on behalf of the terrorist group Venenum, which had strong links to former CEO Peter Illich. The institutional closeness between the Chi Corporation and Venenum has been regarded by some historians as proof that the dominant role of corporations in Morra did not end following the 2040 elections, but most historians regard it more as an extension of Illich and Heinsberg's personal desires to see a more stable authoritarian government from which they could personally prosper, and thus funded Venenum to provide a pretext for increasingly draconian legislation. Unlike Illich, who was later discovered to have been directly involved in the running of Venenum, Heinsberg is believed to have acted more as a facilitator for Illich's running of the organisation and coordinated with senior members, such as former vice president Fachnan Opus, to help them evade the law.

## Political Career

### Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

After stepping down as CEO of the Chi Corporation, Albert Heinsberg was appointed as the first secretary of state for foreign affairs of the newly formed Transitional State of Dunsteen by President Werner Reinheart on October 23, 2022. During his tenure as foreign secretary, Heinsberg attempted to establish a working relationship with Dunsteenian president Emanuel Macron and sought to arrange Dunsteenian recognition of the new transitional state in exchange for the transitional state dropping its claim to be a Dunsteenian state; however, whilst the latter strategy led to negotiations, Macron and Heinsberg held a mutual personal animosity that prevented any serious talks between the two parties. In January 2023, President Reinheart lost his re-election campaign and was succeeded by Jean Luc Melenchon as president on January 20, 2023. Subsequently, Heinsberg was dismissed as foreign secretary and succeeded by Federico Pinedo, allowing him to return to the board of directors of the Chi Corporation as a major shareholder.

### Tenure in the National Assembly

In August 2024, a military coup d'état toppled President Jean Luc Melenchon and issued banket pardons to individuals targeted for political reasons by the prior administration. Among the freed were Albert Heinsberg and his partner Peter Illich, who were both one year into serving a two decade terrorism sentence before their pardon. In January 2025, former vice president Sunil Bakshi was elected as president with former president Werner Reinheart as his vice president; under the new Bakshi administration, the government began to introduce more formal elements of constitutionalism and democracy, replacing the former *de-facto* government with a constitutional government and establishing a formal cabinet. In August 2025, elections were held across the country to select members for a new national legislature. In September 2025, Bakshi announced the formation of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and Heinsberg and Illich were among the first to join the party. In October 2025, both Heinsberg and Illich were sworn in as members of the inaugural National Assembly of Morra. During his tenure in the National Assembly, Heinsberg had a 93% record of voting with the government and was a supporter of President Bakshi's transition to a more democratic republic following the 2027 Global Banking Crisis. In September 2028, Albert Heinsberg was appointed as CEO of Chi Corporation for a second time, and subsequently stepped down as a representative following the 2030 Morranian National Assembly Election to focus on his role as chief executive officer.

## Legal Issues

### *Peter Illich & Albert Heinsberg v. Executive Branch of the Independence Alliance* (I & II)

Following the passing of the *Chi Corporation Reclamation Act 2023*, Albert Heinsberg and Peter Illich attempted to resist the government's seizure of assets and appealed the law before the Judicial Council of the Independence Alliance, which at the time was the *de-facto* government. However, after a single hearing saw the Judicial Council temporarily pause the government's plans, the Melenchon administration disbanded the Judicial Council and enacted the *Counterterrorism Act 2022* to designate Heinsberg and Illich as terrorists, thus lawfully allowing the government to seize their assets. Their designation as terrorists thus allowed the government to prosecute the two men for terror offenses, and on September 2, 2023, both men were sentenced to twenty years in prison. The ruling of the *Executive Branch of the Independence Alliance v. Peter Illich & Albert Heinsberg* was overturned in September 2024 by the Transitional Junta which came to power following the deposition of President Melenchon, and both men were formally pardoned.

## Styles and Titles

As a senior member of the House of Hesse, Albert Heinsberg inherited the title of Landgraf von Hessen (English: Land Count of Hesse) upon his father's death on December 18. 2009. Whilst the title does not confer the holder any legal or political status, it does hold ceremonial importance; since 2010, Albert Heinsberg has attended every opening of the Provincial Legislature of Hesse in his capacity as Landgraf von Hessen. The Republic of Morra does not recognise the legality of Heinsberg's noble titles, though the Republic of Dunsteen continues to do so. As such, from 2023 onwards, Albert Heinsberg held two separate formal styles of address.

* 1976 - 1982: *Herr* **Albert Alphonso Wilhelm Olaf Heinsberg**
* 1982 - 2001: *His Grace* **Albert Alphonso Wilhelm Olaf, Barron Kessel**
* 2001 - 2009: *His Grace*, **Albert Alphonso Wilhelm Olaf, Barron Kessel** SC
* 2009 - *Present*: *His Excellency*, **Albert Alphonso Wilhelm Olaf, 18th Landgraf von Hessen** SC
* 2023 - *Present*: *Herr* **Albert Alphonso Wilhelm Olaf Heinsberg** SC (in Morra only)

## Personal Life

Albert Heinsberg is one of a handful of of LGBT politicians to have served in the National Assembly of Morra. For most of his life, Heinsberg was in a relationship with Peter Illich, with the two having known each other since they both attended Oxford University in the late 1990s. The pair went public with their relationship in 2013 but it is believed that they had been romantically linked since at least 2001. Their relationship briefly ended in March 2037 after Illich was sentenced to 13 years in prison for attempted murder, but was alleged to have restarted by 2038.

As a patron of numerous art and sport societies in his capacity as Landgraf von Hassen, Albert Heinsberg is known to have been be a fan of classical music, football, hockey, and cycling. Additionally, Heinsberg was able to play a variety of musical instruments, most notably the trombone and the saxophone. In 2041, Heinsberg played the trombone as part of an orchestra performance for Morranian president Kairos Hemlock. Heinsberg was fluent in six languages: Avalonian, Dunsteenian, Dutch, English, Mandarin, and Spanish. Additionally, he was able of reading and writing in Latin and held basic proficiency in Isgardian. During his life, Heinsberg wrote several books on a variety of topics ranging from jurisprudence to Morranian history. After publishing his first book on jurisprudence in 2000 with the aid of Oxford University Press, Heinsberg wrote a history of the Chi Corporation in 2014 and started writing a second volume prior to his resignation as CEO in 2022, but the draft was lost following his 2023 arrest. Following his pardon in 2025, Albert Heinsberg wrote a series of books on Morranian history in 2025, 2027, and 2028, and co-authored an article in 2039 about how to resolve several political issues in Morra.

## Written Works

* *Jurisprudence in the 21st Century* (Oxford University Press, 2000)
* *Chi: An Inside View of the Rise of the Europe's Largest Law Firm* (Springer Nature, 2014)
* *The Dream of Morra: What Went Wrong and How We Fix It* (Brussels National Publishing House, 2025)
* *Extraordinary Men of Morra: Our Country's Founding Fathers* (Brussels National Publishing House, 2027)
* *Extraordinary Women of Morra: Our Country's Founding Mothers* (Brussels National Publishing House, 2028)
* *A Radical Manifesto for Solving the Present Crisis* (The Morranian National Telegraph, 2039; with Fachnan Opus, Christine Lagarde, and Werner Reinheart)