Prussia Application

Nation:
D: Preußen
E: Prussia

Name:
Gilbert Beilschmidt

Gender:
Male

Appearance Age:
26

Actual Age:
There is no definite age for Old Prussia, however it dates back to pre-13th century so he is at least over 800 years old.
Duchy of Prussia (1525): 488 years
Kingdom of Prussia (1772): 239 years old
Free State of Prussia (1918): 95 years old
East Germany (1947): 66 years old

Appearance


Hair Color:
White

Eye Color:
Red

Height:
177 cm
5’9

Weight:
163 pounds

Appearance:

At first sight, Gilbert is often times mistaken for a malicious man with his albino-like appearance; his hair tinted platinum-blonde to white and his pale red eyes don’t help prevent this effect. However appearances can be deceiving and this is often the case with this loud mouthed, rowdy nation.

Perhaps he isn’t a photo copy of his younger brother, but they stand the same- proud and erect, walking with an air of righteousness shrouded around him. Set at a height of 5’9 (177 cm), Gilbert appears to be scrawny, but what is usually hidden behind clothing is his lean muscular build. He may seem lazy, but he likes feeling and looking healthy and does the bare minimum to keep himself looking that way. Compared to Ludwig, his face is slightly more rounded and his features are softer. Although these features do not take away from his masculinity entirely, they allow his face to form from his personality clearer and help soften the harsh albinism qualities.

When it comes to the general public and people of interest, Gilbert dresses to impress. He thinks very carefully about what clothes he throws on before appearing in public. (Which is surprising considering his outfits in the past) His casual wear consists of dark blue jeans, a black button-up with a white undershirt (Or vice-versa), a red and black checkered scarf and his iron cross hanging from around his neck. He dresses rather stylish for the time period, at least. However at home the story is much different. He shows little interest in his clothes when lounging around his brother’s house- quickly to be spotted in a pair of blue plaid or white pajama pants and a plain t-shirt- and sliding around on newly mopped floors in socks when he gets the opportunity.


Defining Features:

Obviously everything about Gilbert is defining and outstanding and amazing and unique.

The most defining feature for Gilbert would be his red eyes and and light hair. It allows for him to stick out of any crowd almost instantly and perhaps one of the reasons he is always craving attention.

Who Am I?

Personality:

Loud, obnoxious, humiliating, narcissistic, passionate, strong, protective, caring, loyal. All words can combine to describe Gilbert Beilschmidt as a person and as a nation. Like that one guy that annoys you so much you could just kill him, but then when he’s gone it’s as though something is missing in your suddenly meager and insignificant life.

Having been raised in the northern regions of Europe and living a life amongst the wilderness, Gilbert isn’t one to care much for things of the frivolous and high-maintenance way of life. He likes things to stay on the simple side and can’t stand when situations become too emotional and over-bearing. Often times saying stupid things or changing topics suddenly to avoid conversations that make him uncomfortable. Which also leads to him having a difficulty with displaying his emotions correctly and thus creating a barrier between his emotions and how he behaves in response to them. He subconsciously expresses a lot of himself through body language rather than words. At times, Gilbert has difficulty sensing the mood and is often hurting others with his insensitivity without realizing it.

Gilbert is extremely hot-headed, always looking to pick a fight with whoever seems fit, but does his best to keep it under control for his brother’s sake. His uncanny ability to taunt and humiliate other nations despite circumstances most likely stemming from his days as a young nation in the Teutonic Order. His discipline and respect for those he deemed worthy came later on.

Now-a-days he is an outgoing, proud character with a slight narcissistic side; seeing himself as the best of the best. At least that much hasn’t changed about him at all. Spending most of his days in his brother’s house, he always makes an attempt to help out- even if he doesn’t do a very good job and drives Ludwig insane. Whether it’s cleaning, cooking, filing papers that don’t make any sense to him, or just giving his brother some company, Gilbert would do anything to show his affection.

However while Gilbert is all of these, there is another side of him that is rarely credited, unless you’re his bird, of course. Gilbert has a passionately caring side to him, his loyalty to those he is close to is unmatched by no others. He’d give up anything to protect his people and those closest to him, mainly being his brothers.

“He could describe the entirety of strategy and military tactics behind a battle with excruciating detail, but would be completely puzzled by a Shakespearean play.”

Likes:

• Beer
  
• War History
  
• War Strategy
  
• Cute objects/things/animals/etc
  
• The Outdoors
  
• Baking breads
  
• Potatoes
  
• His birthday
  
• His little bruder
  
• Taunting others
  
• Fighting
  
• Birds
  
• Sleeping
  
• Singing
  
• Cleanliness
  
• Italy
  

Dislikes:

• Losing
  
• Russia
  
• Politics
  
• Being Alone/Ignored
  
• Austria
  
• Marriages
  
• Addictions
  
• Disloyalty
  
• Disrespect
  

Fears:

• Being forgotten
  

Fun Facts:

• Gilbert has a little yellow bird, affectionately referred to as Gilbird, which he rarely notices when perched up on his head. The bird is very loyal to him though and when the two are alone he tends to hold the deepest conversations with him.
  
• Gilbert knows how to play the flute and the basics on the piano and violin
  
• He likes to bake breads
  
• Doors are over-rated, he prefers entering through a window.
  
• He never takes off his Iron Cross.
  
• He adores cute things; Japan’s chibi-things, Italy, kittens, puppies, etc.
  
• Whenever something is bothering him, he will go and mess with others until it he is thoroughly re-distracted.
  
• He still remembers the Old Prussian language and when he is really angry he will curse in the language. Or if he is feeling particularly affectionate he may talk to you sweetly in the language.
  

Strengths:

• He is surprisingly strong though he doesn’t look it
  
• Strategy
  
• Knowledge of war
  
• Stubbornness
  
• Sword-fighting
  

Weaknesses:

• His inability to sense the mood of the atmosphere at times
  
• Insensitivity
  
• Stubbornness
  

Your History

Old Prussia
1141        Jan 31, Pope Innocent II authorized Bishop Henry of Moravia to preach Catholicism in Prussia.
1200        Following Prussian attacks on Polish lands, the Catholic Poles invited German religious-military orders to attack Prussia.
  1249        Feb 7, The Christburg Peace Treaty forced the Prussians to recognize the rule of the Teutonic Knights. Within about 50 years the Teutonic Knights and Knights of the Cross had overcome most of Prussia and established German as the dominant culture and language. The German orders then turned to Lithuania.
1255        Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) was founded on the Baltic Sea by the Bohemian King Otakar II, who came to help Teutonic Knights during their conquest of Prussia disguised as the Christianization effort called the Northern Crusades. It was annexed by Russia in 1945.
1270        Feb 16, In the Karusa Ice war in Estonia, Lithuanian forces defeated the Livonian Knights of the Cross.
1279          Mar 5, Lithuanians overcame Livonian forces at Aizkraukle.
1298        Mar 30, Duke Vytenis joined with Riga and its archbishop against the Livonian order.
1324        Feb 10, The pope officially chastised the Knights of the Cross for ill treatment of Catholics and for pushing pagans away from Christianity.
1330        Mar 23, Riga surrendered to the Livonian Order.
1336          Feb 25, The Knights of the Cross sieged the Pilenai Castle in Samogitia. The defenders burned all their goods and committed suicide.
1361        Mar 21, Grand duke Kestutis was captured by the Knights of the Cross.
1401          Mar 13, The 1st Samogitian uprising supported by Vytautas took place against the German knight.
1402          Mar 2, In Marienburg Svitrigaila crossed over to the Knights of the Cross and promised to uphold the Salyn treaty that was broken by Vytautas.
1410        Jul 15, Lithuanian-Polish forces defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Tannenberg, Prussia, thereby halting the Knights’ eastward expansion along the Baltic and hastening their decline.
1454        Mar 6,  Casimir proclaimed the attachment of Prussia to Polish rule. This began a 13-year war over Prussia (1454-1466).
1466        Oct 19, The peace of Torun ended the 13-year War of the Cities (1454-1466), between the Teutonic knights and their own disaffected subjects in Prussia. The Peace of Thorn (Torún) ended the war between the Teutonic knights (a German military and religious order) and their subjects in Prussia, led by King Casimir IV (1427-1492) of Poland.  Poland was given Pomerelia and West Prussia, and the knights retained East Prussia, with a new capital at Königsberg (Kaliningrad). The knights, formerly strictly a German order, were forced to accept Poles as members and their grand master became a vassal of the Polish king.
1506        Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish-born astronomer, was appointed canon of church properties in the Prussian diocese of Ermland.
1519        Prussia experienced a monetary crises.

Duchy of Prussia
1525        Apr 8, Albert von Brandenburg, the leader of the Teutonic Order, assumed the title “Duke of Prussia” and passed the first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a Protestant state.
1608        May 19, The Protestant states formed the Evangelical Union of Lutherans and Calvinists under the direction of the elector of Brandenburg.
1656        Jan 17, Prussian Duke Frederick Wilhelm withdrew ties with Lithuania and Poland and acknowledged vassal status with Sweden.
1685        Nov 8, Fredrick William of Brandenburg issued the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge.
1701        Jan 18, Frederick, the elector of Brandenburg, became the king of Prussia.
1701        German artisans created an amber room for King Frederick I of Prussia. He presented it as a gift to Peter the Great in 1712.
1712        Jan 24, Frederick II (d.1786), Frederick the Great, the Hohenzollern King of Prussia (1740-1786), was born. He was noted for his social reforms and leading Prussia in military victories.
1712        King Frederick I of Prussia presented his amber room, made as a gift by German artisans in 1701, to Peter the Great [1716]. It was moved to Konigsburg in 1945 and then lost during WW II.
1713        Feb 25, Frederik I (55), King of Prussia (1701-13), died.
1716         Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I gave the Czar of Russia an elaborately carved amber chamber. In exchange, he received his wish: 55 very tall Russian soldiers. German troops dismantled it in 1941 and took it to Koenigsburg where it disappeared. In 1979 the Soviet government initiated a reconstruction, which was unveiled in 2003. [see 1701, 1712]
1719        Mar 22, Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.
1740        Jun 22, King Frederick II of Prussia ended torture and guaranteed religion and freedom of the press.
1740        Frederick II (28) ascended to the throne.
1740        Frederick the Great awarded what is believed to be the first medal for combat bravery, the Pour le Merite, nicknamed the Blue Max.
1740s        Frederick the Great built a summer palace in Potsdam named Sans-souci (without worries).
1741        Jun 11, Austria ceded most of Silesia to Prussia by Treaty of Breslau.
1742        May 17, Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beat Austrians.
1745        Jun 4, Frederick the Great of Prussia defeated the Austrians & Saxons.
1745        Dec 25, Prussia and Austria signed the Treaty of Dresden. This gave much of Silesia to the Prussians.
1750        Sep 5, A decree issued in Paderborn, Prussia, allowed for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods.
1753        Mar 25, Voltaire left the court of Frederik II of Prussia.
1755        Nov 12, Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussian military minister of War (1807-10), was born.
1756-1763    The Seven Years War. France and Great Britain clashed both in Europe and in North America. France, Russia, Austria, Saxony, Sweden and Spain stood against Britain, Prussia and Hanover. Britain financed Prussia to block France in Europe while his manpower was occupied in America.
1757        May 6, Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beat emperor's army.
 1757        Jun 18, Battle at Kolin, Bohemia: Austrian army beat Prussia.
 1757        Sep 3, Charles X, Duke of Prussia, was born in Versailles, France.
1757        Nov 5, Frederick II of Prussia defeated the French at Rosbach in the Seven Years War.
 1757        Nov 22, Austrians defeated Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War.
1758        Aug 25, The Prussian army defeated the invading Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf. Thousands were killed.
  1760        Jun 23, Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
  1760        Aug 15, Frederick II (1712-1786), king of Prussia,  defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Liegnitz.
1760        Nov 3, Following the Russian capture of Berlin, Frederick II of Prussia defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Torgau (Germany).
1762        Aug 5, Russia, Prussia and Austria signed a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland.
1763        Frederick the Great took over Die Konigliche Porzelan-Manufaktur.
1770        Prussia issued the first covered bonds. They were paid back from the issuer’s cash flow and were secured against a pool of assets.

Kingdom of Prussia
1772 Partition of Poland
1779        Sep 13, Frederick II of Prussia issued a manifesto in which he bemoaned the increased use of coffee and called for more consumption of beer.
1786        Frederick the Great (b.1712) died.
1792        Apr 20, France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia, marking the start of the French Revolutionary wars.
1792        Sep 2, Verdun, France, surrendered to the Prussian Army.
 1793        Jan 23, Prussia and Russia signed an accord on the 2nd partition of Lithuania and Poland. The 2nd partition of Poland. Polish patriots had attempted to devise a new constitution which was recognized by Austria and Prussia, but Russia did not recognize it and invaded. Prussia in turn invaded and the two agreed to a partition that left only the central portion of Poland independent.
1793        Jul 23, The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, fell to the Prussians.
1794        Nov 28, Friedrich WLGA von Steuben (64), Prussian-US inspector-general of Washington’s army, died in Oneida, NY. Baron von Steuben, a former Prussian captain, had arrived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1777, and despite false credentials, was hired to drill and train Washington’s Continental Army. His manual of arms, known as the “Blue Book,” shaped basic training for American recruits for generations to come. In 2008 Paul Lockhart authored “The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army.”
1795        Oct 24, Russia, Austria and Prussia held a convention in Petersburg to finalize the 3rd division of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic. Most of Lithuania with Vilnius went to Russia, Warsaw and the left bank of the Nemunas River went to Prussia and Cracow went to Austria. King Stanislovas Augustas of Poland was forced from his capital and moved to Grodno (Gardinas).
 1797        Jan 15, In St. Petersburg Russia, Prussia and Austria signed and act that terminated the Lithuanian-Polish state.
1800        Oct 26, Helmuth Karl von Moltke, Prussian Field Marshal and Count, was born. His reorganization of the Prussian Army led to military victories that allowed the unification of Germany. His father was a German officer serving in the Danish army. His greatest innovation was the creation of a fighting force that could mobilize quickly and strike when and where it chose. He was one of the first generals to grasp the importance of railroads in moving troops. 1803        Feb 25, The 1,800 sovereign German states united into 60 states.
1805        Prussia sent Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt as envoy to the Vatican, the first Protestant state to do so.
1805        Napoleon defeated Austria and Prussia.
1806        Oct 14, The forces of French Emperor Napoleon I defeated the Prussians in the twin battles of Jena and Auerstadt.
1807        Jun 25, Napoleon I of France and Russian Czar Alexander I met near Tilsit, in northern Prussia, to discuss terms for ending war between their empires.
1807        Jul 7, Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilsit ending war between their empires. It divided Europe among themselves and isolated Britain.
1812        Mar 9, Swedish Pomerania was seized by Napoleon.
1812        Mar 11, Citizenship was granted to Prussian Jews.
1813          Feb 28, Russia and Prussia formed the Kalisz union against Napoleon.
 1813        Mar 4, The Russians fighting against Napoleon reached Berlin. The French garrison evacuated the city without a fight.
1813        Aug 23, At the Battle of Grossbeeren Prussians under Von Bulow repulsed the French.
1813            Aug 26-1813 Aug 27, The Battle of Dresden was Napoleon’s last major victory against the allied forces of Austria, Russia and Prussia.
1813        Oct 16-19, In the Battle at Leipzig (aka Battle of the Nations) Napoleon faced Prussia, Austria and Russia and suffered one of his worst defeats.
1813        Oct 18, The Allies defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig.
1813        Prussia took over Danzig.
1813        The Prussians introduced the Iron Cross during the Napoleonic wars.
1814        Sep, The Congress of Vienna convened in late September and continued to June 8, 1815.
1815        Apr, British General Arthur Wellesley, duke of Wellington, began assembling troops at Brussels, Belgium. 73,000 British troops were joined by 33,000 German, Dutch and Belgian troops preparing to face Napoleon. Prussian Gen. Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher gathered an army of 120,000 southeast of Brussels.
1815        Jun 16, Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, Belgium.
1815        Jun 18, British and Prussian troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and his forces at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium. Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher made a short speech to his troops saying that he was pregnant and about to give birth to an elephant. He was taken from the front in protective custody and missed the battle. Napoleon lost over 40,000 men at Waterloo; the British and Belgians lost 15,000; the Prussians lost 7,000. The total losses in 3 days of fighting was later estimated at 91,800.
1815        Sep 26, Russia, Prussia and Austria signed a Holy Alliance. "Justice, charity and peace" were to be the precepts that guided the Holy Alliance as envisioned by Czar Alexander I of Russia. The alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia was formed after the downfall of Napoleon and later all European rulers signed the agreement except the prince regent of Great Britain, the pope and the sultan of Turkey. With no specific aims beyond mutual assistance, the provisions of the Holy Alliance were so vague that it had little effect on European diplomacy. Metternich quietly replaced the entire alliance by the purely political alliance of 20 November, 1815, between Austria, Prussia, Russia and England.
1815        Nov 20, The treaties known collectively as the 2nd Peace of Paris were concluded. Austria’s chancellor Klemens von Metternich helped create a “Concert of Europe,” a system by which 4-5 big powers kept miscreants in check and managed the affairs of smaller states for over a decade.
1818        May 5, Karl Marx, German philosopher, was born in Prussia.
 1839        Mar 9, Prussian government limited the work week for children to 51 hours.
  1848        Apr 6, Jews of Prussia were granted equality.
 1849        Jul 23, German rebels in Baden capitulated to the Prussians.
1850        Jul 2, Prussia agreed to pull out of Schleswig and Holstein, Germany.
 1852        May 8, A war between Denmark and Prussia lasted three years (1848–50) and ended only when the Great Powers pressured Prussia into accepting the London Protocol of 1852.
1856        Jul 2, Prussian private bankers founded Berliner Handels-Gesselschaft. In 1970 the bank merged with Frankfurter Bank and became BHF-Bank.
 1858        Jan 25, Britain's Princess Victoria (the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert), married Crown Prince Frederick William (the future German Emperor and King of Prussia) at St. James's Palace.
  1861        Jan 2, Frederik Willem IV (b.1795), king of Prussia (1840-61) and Germany (1849-61), died.
  1862        Sep 23, Otto von Bismarck became the 9th Minister President of the Kingdom of Prussia.
  1862        Oct 8, Otto von Bismarck became German republic chancellor.
   1864        Prussia and Austria snatched Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark. The border was redrawn by plebiscite in 1920. After 1945 Germany and Denmark agreed to recognize the rights of minorities on both sides.
  1865        Apr 15, Otto von Bismarck was elevated to earl.
  1865        Jul 2, Lili Braun, feminist, socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), was born in Prussia.
 1866        Jun 8, Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.
  1866        Jun 15, Prussia attacked Austria.
1866        Aug 23, Treaty of Prague ended the Austro-Prussian war.
1870        Jul 19, The Franco-Prussian War began. Napoleon declared war on Bismarck. Emperor Napoleon III of France declared war on Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Napoleon was defeated in three months and abdicated.
1870        Aug 6, At the Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beat France. Crown Prince Frederick, commanding one of the three Prussian armies invading France, defeated French Marshal MacMahon at Worth and Weissenburg, pushed him out of Alsace, surrounded Strasbourg, and drove on towards Nancy. Two other Prussian armies isolated Marshal Bazaine's forces in Metz.
1870        Aug 18, Prussian forces defeated the French at the Battle of Gravelotte during the Franco-Prussian War. French Commander Bazaine's efforts to break his soldiers through the German lines were bloodily defeated at Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte. The Prussians advanced on Chalons.
1870        Sep 1, The Prussian army crushed the French under Marshal MacMahon at Sedan, the last battle of the Franco-Prussian War.
1870        Sep 2, Napoleon III with 80,000 men capitulated to the Prussians at Sedan, France.
1870        Sep 4, At news of Sedan, Paris workers invaded the Palais Bourbon and forced the Legislative Assembly to proclaim the fall of the Empire. Emperor Louis Napoleon III was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The 3rd French Republic was proclaimed in Paris and a government of national defense was formed.
1870        Sep 19, Two Prussian armies began a 135-day siege of Paris as the 2nd Empire collapsed. This forced the people of the city to eat Castor and Pollux, the 2 elephants in the zoo.
1870        Oct 27, The French fortress of Metz surrendered to the Prussian Army.
1871        Jan 8, Prussian troops began to bombard Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1871        Jan 22, The Paris proletariat and the National Guards held a revolutionary demonstration, initiated by the Blanquists. They demanded the overthrow of the government and the establishment of a Commune. By order of the Government of National Defense, the Breton Mobile Guard, which was defending the Hotel de Ville, opened fire on the demonstrators. After massacring the unarmed workers, the government began preparations to surrender Paris.
1871        Jan 18, William I of Prussia was proclaimed "German Emperor" (which was not the same thing as "Emperor of Germany") in Versailles, France.
1871        Jan 28, France, under a provisional republican government, continued the war against Germany, but was forced to surrender in the Franco-Prussian War. Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrendered. During the siege, balloons were used to keep contact with the outside world.
1871        Feb 26, France and Prussia signed a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles.
1871        Mar 1, Germans paraded down the Champs-Elysses, Paris, France during the Franco-Prussian War.
 1871        Mar 21, Otto von Bismarck became the 1st Chancellor of the German Empire.
 1871        The German states became a nation. Germany went on to adopt the mark as its common currency.
1872        Hawaii’s King Kamehameha V asked the Kaiser of Prussia to send a music teacher for the Royal Hawaiian Band. Henry Berger, a Prussian military band leader, arrived and led the group for 43 years. He was later considered the father of Hawaiian music.
1880        Bavaria and Prussia introduced Spelling reform. Chancellor Bismarck threatened civil servants with increased fines if the new system was used.
1882        Apr 13, An anti-Semitic League formed in Prussia.
1883        May 29, Albrecht of Prussia (73), mistress of John van Rossum, died.
1883        Germany under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck adopted the first compulsory health insurance program on a national scale.
1889        Prussia under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck adopted old-age and invalidity pensions. Prussian average life expectancy was about 45.
1890        Mar 20, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II fired republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck.
1898        Jul 30, Otto von Bismarck (b.1815), German-Prussian statesman and former "Iron" chancellor (1871-1890), died. He held the German social security system as his greatest accomplishment.
1914        Aug 2, Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia.
1914        Aug 22, Von Ludendorff and von Hindenburg moved into East Prussia enroute to Russia.
1915        Hans Leip, in training for the Prussian Guard, authored the poem “Song of a Young Sentry.” It reflected his recent meetings with two women named Lili and Marlene. In 1938 Norbert Schultze of Berlin put it to music. The composition was then recorded by cabaret chanteuse Lale Anderson and became hugely as the song “Lili Marlene.” In 2008 Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller authored “Lili Marlene: The Soldier’s Song of World War II.”

Free State of Prussia
1918        Nov 28, Kaiser Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany, abdicated.
1920          Feb 27, The Lithuanian government offered the representatives of the National Council of Prussian Lithuania assent to cooptation in the Lithuanian government. They co-opted March 20.
1927        Mar 10, Prussia lifted its Nazi ban, Hitler was allowed to speak in public.
1928        Sep 28, Prussia forbade a speech by Adolf Hitler.
1929        May 3, Prussia banned anti-fascists.
1932        Apr 24, In German national elections the NSDAP/NAZI won 36.3% in Prussia.
1933        Apr 11, Hermann Goering became premier of Prussia.
1934-35 Jan 30, The States and Provinces of Prussia were dissolved by the central Nazi state.


Sample Post

The rain fell slowly, as though afraid to fall, in fear of being scorned by the mourning nation beneath. The heavy water droplets began to dampen the earth and fell against the man’s silvery white hair. His head hung low as he stared at the greying white color of the church walls with a distant, pale red gaze. The atmosphere weighed heavily against his chest, or so he believed, as the sun left him in a darkening twilight.

All other onlookers had retired to their homes, not wanting to get soaked in the sudden change of weather, leaving the Prussian to stand guard at the grave site alone. Standing erect, his hands were clasped behind his back as he willingly allowed for the rain to begin seeping through his pristine uniform. At the moment there was little he cared about, still in a daze from the events that had occurred only a few days before.

Clenching his jaw in frustration, he forced himself to look away from the tombstone and allowed himself a deep breath, muttering with a disheartened tone in his voice, “... Old Fritz...”

“Prussia.” The greying King called out to his nation, resting in an arm chair in the study and looking up at the immortal man with tired eyes.

Gilbert, who had his nose in one of the latest military tactical books, pulled his eyes away from the pages and looked over at his King. His heart sunk from the look he received. He quickly shut the book and set it down on the table, wasting no time in going to his leader, “Yes?”

“Kneel before me,” Frederich commanded his nation softly and leaned forward in his seat, if only enough to lightly feel the youth of the nation. Gilbert obliged and knelt in front of the man, his head lowered, but his gaze never faltering from his. Lightly running his cold fingers over his cheek, Frederich’s smile was melancholy as he continued to speak, “You look the same as when I re-call first meeting you as a boy. Though you can not speak the same to me, I hope I’ve made a lasting impression.”

The Prussian tried his best to hide a frown from his king. He knew it would happen soon, it had happened to all leaders before this one, but that only made the idea all the harder to cope with. Especially with such an endearing leader he was not quite prepared to be without. Gilbert furrowed his brow and spoke up, “Dear Fritz... Don’t speak like that now.”

“You’re a strong nation and I am proud to have been a part of it.”

He swallowed hard when he noticed a shift in Frederich’s composure. His main frame was relaxed and when Gilbert looked closely, he noticed that his breathing had slowed to a stop. He stood up suddenly and leaned forward, checking for a pulse desperately as he thought in his head- ‘Damn it! Fritz don’t leave me like this. Not yet!’. He felt his gut tighten as he placed his weight against the arm of the chair, frustrated at no one in particular.

Glancing down at his King’s body, he took a faint step back and felt his face contort in a frown. Recognizing how peaceful he appeared, as though he were only taking a nap in the study. Such a betraying scene from the truth. It almost disgusted the Prussian. No matter how aware he was that it was time, he had difficulty grasping the thought of death.

It was an hour after the occurrence that Gilbert managed his way out of the study and informed the officials in charge. From there, everything was taken care of and despite Frederich’s request to be buried beside his Italian greyhounds, his successor, Frederick William II, ordered his body to be entombed alongside his father in the Potsdam Garrison Church. Part of this bothered Gilbert, knowing it wasn’t Frederich’s wish, but he let them do as they pleased with no objection.

The rain began to fall harder as night approached and thoroughly drenched Gilbert. He hadn’t wept as a nation once in the entirety of the past few days and even as the rain offered him a chance to cry without being seen, he refused. He had truly adored his leader, unlike the ones before. There was something charismatic and subtly different about Frederich that Gilbert was beginning to doubt he would ever meet again. However, having known his King since his birth, he knew better than to feel sorry for him. Frederich lived a good, long life and Prussia would respect him, especially after death.

Wiping the water from his face, he rubbed the back of his neck slowly and gave a painful grin, “I won’t disappoint you now.”


The Player

Name:
Aurora

Age:
16

Fun Facts:
[/li][li]I am Swiss-Canadian living in Texas. (A long way from home!)
[/li][li]I cosplay Prussia and own a yellow parakeet named ‘Sir Gilbird’.
[/li][li]I attend an all girls school.