Angelo von Bültzingslöwen

Angelo Waldemar Raimund Pilz von Bültzingslöwen (10 October 1820 - 1880) was a German politician and military officer. From 1840 to 1845, he was a member of the Conservative Faction. Between 1843 to 1845, he was briefly engaged to Elouise von Märchenlied to cover up their mutual homosexuality. He is known for being institutionalized in 1847 after trying to start a war against the Austrians.

## Early life

Angelo Waldemar Raimund Pilz von Bültzingslöwen was born in the early hours of the 10th of October, 1820. His mother, Hannelore Janine von Altenburg died in childbirth merely 2 hours after the young heir’s birth. His father, Elmar Dietmar Raimund Pilz von Bültzingslöwen, Count of a Grafschaft near Erfurt, was a loving father, raising the boy with an affection that Angelo remembered for the rest of his life. At the age of 3, the young Angelo began formal education, mastering the languages of French, Russian, English and Spanish by age 7. When Angelo reached the age of 13 he moved from his family’s home in Meissen to a family estate in the Prussian capital. There he began rudimentary studies in matters of diplomacy, military, mathematics and science. He had since taken up a great admiration for the King and His military and hoped to one day earn his trust and affection. By 1840, when Angelo was 20 years old; he had developped grand ambitions fueled by a great love for the Prussian people and a young, growing desire for unification among all the Germans of the continent. The young man had begun his studies in military tactics at a great military academy in Berlin to take up the torch of his family.

## Professional life

Angelo joined the Conservative Faction in 1840 and was elected into the Reichstag that same year. During this time, Angelo started developping an unhealthy desire to instigate a war with the Austrians. In 1843, he started his engagement with Elouise von Märchenlied to cover up their mutual homosexuality. Despite the absence of romantic feelings towards each other, Angelo would often confide in Elouise and tell her secrets. In 1845, von Bültzingslöwen left the Conservative Faction and tried to join the Reactionary Faction, but failed to get elected and was thus barred from the faction. That same year, he confessed to Elouise that he was working on a plot to blow up a railroad in Saxony to instigate a war with the Austrians. To prepare for that plot, he had met with Alexander Hartmann to get his help. Hartmann, however, felt offended and supposedly assaulted Angelo and called the police thereafter. This affair resulted in a duel between Hartmann and von Bültzingslowen, which Hartmann won. Around the same time, Elouise von Märchenlied informed the King about Angelo's plot and mentioned the names of his co-conspirators, including Friedrich Krüger, Volker von Geishof Senior and Faust Gustav von Falkenrath. The King at the time did not believe her, until in 1847 when Angelo tried to flee the country to France and confessed to his plot. Docter Wilhelm Horn, leading physician at the Chariteé Hospital in Berlin and his team of medical experts shortly thereafter diagnosed Angelo with several psychotic disorders, such as self harming tendencies, multiple personality disorder and paranoid dellusions. And so in 1847, Angelo von Bültzingslöwen was institutionalized in a mental hospital. He remained there for the remainder of his life, until he died by falling off some stairs in 1880.