<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong>Lord Mayerling<br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Wilhelm Bohlm (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178988.0)<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>Late 40s<br/><strong>PROFESSION:</strong>Politician<br/><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong>Saxony, Germany<br/><div class="floatright">(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-072-16%2C_Matthias_Erzberger.jpg)</div><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong>Bolhm has an intelligent charisma, and a determined gaze. With the addition of pince-nez his demeanor becomes patient yet formidable. He wears clothes typical of the capitalist bourgeoisie, collared shirt, vest, an long topcoat. He keeps his hair cut to the length officers were allowed to keep in the army when they weren’t serving on the front.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong>Bohlm considers himself a humble public servant with Germany’s greater interests in mind. He’s a typical Socialist, concerned for the common working man and woman. Healthcare should be assured, unemployment insurance should help those on hard times, and everyone should have a vote in elections. Despite his protectionist leanings, he shuns Communism, and wishes Germany could be spared of the strikes and violence it seems to inherently bring. He also decries the machinations of foreigners into German politics. He sees the Versailles Treaty as exactly that, especially at it robbed Saxony of territory that was used to form the newly created Czechoslovakia.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong>Already too old for the Saxon Army during the Great War, Bohlm was drafted into the Landwehr, a section of the army filled by older men that usually served an auxiliary role. Bohlm served in the Logistics and Railroad division of the army, working his way up from Dispatcher to Administrator. His greatest wartime feat was preventing a strike from the soldiers working on the Western Front in October 1918. He was first elected to the Reichstag in 1921 representing the<em>Mehrheitssozialdemokratische Partei (MSPD)</em>, the majority Socialist party in Germany.<br/><br/><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong>Bohlm believes that stability and prosperity in Germany can result from parliamentary action, must result from the elimination of Communism, and the support of a government-protected working class. He hopes to help foster these goals through continuing service in the Reichstag.<br/><br/><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong>Bohlm has a family in Dresden and travels commutes to Berlin while the Reichstag is in session. He lives at the Hotel Excelsior in the Friedrichstadt while in Berlin, and returns to Dresden on weekends and when the Reichstag is not in session. Bohlm has found a friend in Maxwell Langdon, an American journalist from the industrial city of Detroit.