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Karl Ochsenbein
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Karl Ochsenbein in 1930
Dictator of West Besmenien
In office
4 December 1920 – 7 March 1948
Personal details
Born
Karl Ochsenbein

29 August 1882
Waldtket, Sedakanien
Died7 March 1948
Melmingen, Heraldsteinland
Cause of deathSuicide
Military service
Years of service1917-1920
Battles/warsBesmenian Civil War

Karl Ochsenbein (29 August 1882 - 7 March 1948) was a Besmenian politician. He rose to power as the king of the Besmenian Kingdom/West Besmenien. During his dictatorship from 1920 to 1948, he abolished the office of head of government and took over himself. Ochsenbein banned all political parties in the country and closed the border with East Besmenien. Many people died under his leadership, especially political opponents and border refugees. He is considered a right-wing radical among historians.

Early Years

Childhood

Karl Ochsenbein was born on 29 August 1882 in Waldtket, Sedakanien. He was the second of four children born to Albert Ochsenbein (1839-1898) and his wife, Ursula Ochsenbein (1843-1910). Whereby Gustav, the fourth child, died at the age of 2. The family lived on a farm and where poor. His father was a racist and nationalist and brought up Karl and his siblings in this way.

Early Adulthood

In 1900 Ochsenbein left Waldtket to live and study fine music in Helmfurt, financed by orphan's benefits and support from his older brother. He applied for admission to the Academy of Music Helmfurt but was rejected twice. The director suggested Ochsenbein should apply to the School of Architecture, but he lacked the necessary academic credentials because he had not finished secondary school.

Ochenbein was homeless between 1900 and 1902. He made his living out of public singing.

From 1902 until he entered the war in 1917, he worked as a writer for the right-wing newspaper The Besmenian Worker.

Between 1904 and 1920 Ochsenbein was a member of the far-right political party Besmenian National Union

Soldier in the Civil War

Between August 1917 and the end of the war in February 1920, Ochsenbein fought on the side of the Royal Army.

During the Battle of the Könlenz in March 1918, he was wounded in the left thigh when a shell exploded in the dispatch runners' dugout. Ochsenbein spent almost two months in hospital at Hildberg, returning to his regiment on 21 May 1918. On 15 November 1919, he was temporarily blinded in a mustard gas attack and was hospitalised in Doltham for 4 months. While there, Hitler learned of Besmenien's defeat, and—by his own account—upon receiving this news, he suffered a second bout of blindness.

Ochsenbein described the war as "the greatest of all experiences", and was praised by his commanding officers for his bravery. His wartime experience reinforced his Besmenian patriotism and he was shocked by Besmenien's capitulation in February 1920. His bitterness over the collapse of the war effort began to shape his ideology to anti-democratic.

Dictator of West Besmenien

End of his leadership