Fabian Katz
Fabian Katz | |
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 Photograph of Katz during his short tenure as Chancellor | |
| Chancellor of Hytekojuznia | |
| In office 30 April 1889 – 16 June 1889 | |
| Monarch | Adelaide |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Fabian Jan Katz March 10, 1829 Grobau, Grand Duchy of Hytekia (modern-day Grobina, Hytekia) |
| Died | July 6, 1901 (aged 72) Royal Tautenberg Island Prison, Konreid, Kingdom of Hytekojuznia |
| Political party | Independent |
Fabian Jan Katz von Grobau, 2nd Duke of Grobau (10 March 1829 – 6 July 1901; aged 72; born Fabian Jan Katz) was a Hytekojuznik noble, politician and political theorist who briefly served as the first and only Chancellor of Hytekojuznia from its creation on April 30, 1889 to his arrest and imprisonment on June 16 of the same year. He was a vocal critic of then-monarch Adelaide of Hytekia, who created the position of Chancellor in 1889 amidst growing calls for democratic reform in the country. While the creation of Katz's position was a huge step forward for democratic progress in Erdara, it was extremely short-lived, and Hytekojuznia would not see another democratic assembly for 112 years, until the 2001 elections following the Second Grobina War.
Born in Grobina to his father, the 1st Duke of Grobau, in 1829, Katz led an isolated childhood due to the protective tendencies of his father. Despite repeated attempts at tutoring, Katz was uninterested by the subjects of mathematics and sciences, and cared little about most subjects he was educated on, except the subject of politics. Katz was fascinated by politics and the political structure of various nations of Erdara, and quickly became an expert on monarchical studies and had a firm grasp on the concepts behind the Hytekojuznik monarchy. Initially, under Hans II, Katz was an advent monarchist, and supported the notion of absolute monarchy in Hytekojuznia. He wrote several papers and delivered several lectures on what he believed were the benefits of absolute monarchism, speaking at prestigious universities in Hytekia, Lilienburg, Mascylla and Tudonia. However, upon the secession of Queen Adelaide of Hytekia in 1873, and witnessing the sudden change in ruling quality between Hans and his daughter, Hans quickly rescinded his beliefs of absolute monarchism and began advocating for an early form of constitutional monarchism, whereby the monarch would retain absolute say but dealings of the country, namely foreign affairs and economic affairs, were to be left to experienced and qualified members of office appointed by the monarch. Katz gained popularity quickly, especially throughout Hytekojuznia, due to his new teachings, and the momentum brought forward by Katz was enough to convince the ruling monarch to establish the Hytekojuznik Parliament in 1889. Katz won the nobles' vote over and was proclaimed as Chancellor of Hytekojuznia on April 30, 1889.
Katz's tenure was extremely short-lived, and largely curtailed by Adelaide who insisted that she kept power over affairs that Katz has previously argued against monarch influence for, namely economic spending. Several disagreements between Katz and Adelaide caused the Queen to call for his imprisonment for treason in 1889, and he was sent to the Royal Tautenberg Island Prison in the newly conquered territory of Konreid. Adelaide abolished the position of Chancellor, and the Parliament, after Katz's imprisonment. Katz later died in prison in 1901, aged 72. Katz's teachings would influence monarchical reform and revolutions such as the Mascyllary Revolution in 1923, and, to an extent, the Crimson Revolution in Hytekojuznia in 1916, also this influence is less extensive.