Alternate Destinies (German Heritage)

This is a list of people who existed in our timeline, but had different lives.

Note: Royals are listed under their realm, e.g: Albert, Duke of York is listed under Y, Nicholas II is under R, and so on.

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Joe Biden[]

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (November 20, 1942 - December 2, 1988, aged 46) was an American politician who became the short-lived President-elect of the United States after winning the United States presidential election, 1988 against George H.W. Bush. Biden never withdraws as in our timeline, becoming the front-runner in the Democratic primaries and eventually becoming the party nominee. As a result of the hard-fought early-1988 primaries, Biden did not stop to seek medical attention for his brain aneurisms, resulting in the condition becoming unsurvivable. After winning the election, Biden died at the age of 46, becoming the first president-elect to die before assuming the presidency. His running mate, Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, assumed the presidency in his place on January 20, 1989.

Ernest Brown (British politician)[]

Alfred Ernest Brown (27 August 1881 – 16 February 1962) was a British politician who served in various cabinet positions throughout the 1930s. Brown followed Winston Churchill and John Simon into their new “National United Party”, made up of a number of liberals and the conservatives. After the 1932 Election, Brown was appointed as the Home Secretary and served in this role until 1942. After Churchill stepped aside in 1943, Brown won the ensuing leadership election 53 percent-47 percent against Oswald Mosley.

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Winston Churchill[]

(dai)Churchill — Winston Churchill (1874-1965), a prominent Liberal leader in the Interwar Period.

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Liberal politician who served as the Home Secretary (1910-1911), First Lord of the Admiralty (1911) and later Leader of the Liberal Party (1928-1938). Though initially a strong imperialist and monarchist, Churchill developed moderate republican feelings after George V’s intervention in politics in 1911. Churchill, unlike other accomplished politicians of the period, did not flee to Canada after the British Revolution, but instead helped lead the middle-class fight against the dominance of the Labour Party in the new republic.

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Friedrich Ebert[]

Friedrich Ebert (4 February 1871 - 7 December 1938; aged 68) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and vice-chancellor 1918-1920 and 1932-1934. In this timeline, Ebert is not known as one of the “November Criminals”, and therefore gets treatment for his illness and lives for more years.

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Viktor Kress[]

(16 November 1948; Aged 76) is the current President of Crimea. Kress was born to ethnic German parents in Ukraine, who had fled Russia in the aftermath of World War II. In 1964, as part of the German Colonisation of the Crimea, the Kress family moved to Sevastopol (then known as Sachsenstadt), where Kress studied agricultural economics. In 2011, Kress was elected as President in the Presidential Election, as a nominee of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Queen Elizabeth II March 2015 — Elizabeth, Duchess of Marlborough

John Maclean (Scottish Socialist)[]

(24 August 1879 – 12 December 1944, aged 65) was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era. Maclean believed that Scottish workers were especially fitted to lead the revolution, and talked of "Celtic communism", inspired by clan spirit. Although he had been appointed Bolshevik representative in Scotland, he was not in harmony with the Communist Party of Great Britain, even though it had absorbed the British Socialist Party, to which he had belonged. In 1921, he formed the Scottish Communist Party (SCP), which became the dominant communist movement in Scotland. Under Maclean, the SCP gained seats in the Scottish Parliament, reaching a high point in 1936, where the SCP gained 19.1 percent of the vote.

Elizabeth, Duchess of Marlborough[]

(born 21 April 1926) daughter of Albert, Duke of York and Duchess Elizabeth. At the time of her birth, she was third in line to the throne, though she is now ___th. Born in exile in Canada, she met John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough in 1934, and later married him in 1948. She had three children with him: John Charles Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough, Andrew and Anne.

August Von Mackensen[]

(6 December 1849 – 8 November 1945), was a German field marshal known for his extreme success during World War I and for being the German Chief of Staff from 1925 to 1935. While praised for his strategies, he was later criticised for his reluctance to modernise the Imperial Army. Under the direction of Chancellor Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Wilhelm II reluctantly replaced Von Mackensen with his subordinate Ludwig Beck.

Ed Miliband[]

(born 24 December 1969) is a Swiss social democratic politician and member of the Federal Council since 2012, and was the President of the Swiss Confederation for the year of 2018. Miliband was born in Geneva to Polish Jewish immigrants Marion Kozak and Ralph Miliband, a Marxist intellectual who was a native of Brussels and fled Belgium during World War II. Miliband became first a television journalist, then a Social Democratic Party researcher and a visiting scholar, before entering parliament and eventually becoming appointed on the council.

Oswald Mosley[]

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British Conservative (1918-1925) and National United (1925-) politician who served in numerous prominent cabinet positions, such as the Minister of Labour from 1932 until 1937, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1937 until 1940, and then finally as Prime Minister from 1952 to 1962. Known for his personal ambition and his oratory abilities, Mosley was a founding member of Winston Churchill's National United Party in 1925. After the victory of 1932, Mosley was appointed as the Minister of Labour - a daunting task in light of the great unemployment crisis facing Britain - in 1932, 6 million workers were registered as unemployed. Mosley helped organise public works in an attempt to elevate the unemployment crisis and created the National Labour Front to coordinate these efforts. After the 1937 Election, Mosley was appointed as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and attempted to use Keynesian Economics to bring Britain out of the depression.

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Barack Obama[]

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is a Kenyan politician who has served as President of Kenya since 2011.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg[]

Jacob William Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is an Anglo-American politician currently serving as the Minority Leader of the New York State Senate. A member of the Republican Party, Rees-Mogg is a leading social conservative. Worried about their prospects in a Revolutionary Britain, the Rees-Mogg family fled Britain during the British Revolution of 1917, settling in Jacob Rees-Mogg’s grandmother’s home state, New York.

Nicholas II of Russia[]

(18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 - July 17, 1934(1934-07-17) (aged 66) - The Last reigning Tsar of Russia, he abdicated the throne and went into exile in Britain, and then in Canada. Spent the rest of his life in Northern Ontario in the forests there with his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. Wrote his memoir Autocrat of Russians in 1928, in which he defended his actions as well as his passion for his family and Russia. It became a best-seller among the White Emigre and Russian Americans.

Michael II of Russia[]

(4 December 1878 - September 8, 1965(1965-09-08) (aged 86)) - The first Tsar-in-pretence, fled to Britain in 1917, before fleeing to the United States. He fell out with his brother over the issue of constitutionalism and only reconciled on Nicholas’ deathbed. He campaigned during the Second World War for a post-war restoration of the Romanovs, though this plan never came to fruition. Bought an estate in Pennsylvania in the 1920s, which became the modern-day Romanov Estate. He was succeeded to the succession by his nephew Andrei.

Manfred von Richthofen[]

(2 May 1892 - 21 October 1965) - Survived World War I as the most successful air-ace, and became a national hero. He went on to become a commander of the Luftstreitkräfte from 1930 to 1955, succeeding Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen and was instrumental in creating it as a essential branch of the Reichsweir separate from the Army. He was made an official Baron in 1926 and was the last colonial administrator of German Congo from 1958-1962.

Alfred Rosenberg 1939 — Rosenburg in 1939.

Erwin Rommel[]

(15 November 1891 - 9 July 1968) - Never committed suicide in 1944, commanded the Southern Front of WWII, mainly in Italy, France and Spain, having been elevated to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall. He was Chief of the German General Staff from 1953 to 1959, having been a member of the General staff from 1943. Upon his retirement, he was made the colonial administrator of German Equatorial Africa and saw it through independence in 1962.

Ernst Reuter[]

(29 July 1889-July 1, 1934(1934-07-01) (aged 44)) - A socialist-turned-communist, Reuter was placed as the chairman of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1918-1933. Killed during Stalin’s purges of the 1930s.

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg[]

(12 January 1893 - March 4, 1972(1972-03-04) (aged 79)) - Never emigrated from Estonia after WWI and became involved in the Baltic Cabinet. He was Ambassador to the German Reich 1926-1935, foreign secretary from 1935 to 1946, and the Prime Minister from 1946 to 1949. He was an unpopular figure due to his hatred of Christians and Jews, and was overthrown in the January Coup. He retired to rural Estonia, and became “hidden” in the public eye.

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Donald Tusk[]

Born in Danzig to a German-polish family, current Minister-President of Prussia. Named Donald Jonasburg.

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Queen Tatiana Nikolaevna of the United Kingdom[]

(10 June 1897 - January 11, 1978(1978-01-11) (aged 81) was the longtime wife of King Edward VIII (m.1927) and Queen Consort from 1927 to 1972. Unlike OTL, Tatiana survived the Russian Revolution with her family and went on to live a long life. While Edward was still part of various romantic scandals, they had a relatively happy marriage and had two children.

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Alexander Von der Bellen[]

(Born 18 January 1944) is a Estonian politician and former leader of the Green Party. Born to the noble Von der Bellen family, Alexander was born in Berlin in 1944, during his family’s exile during the Soviet Occupation of the Baltic States during World War II.

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Xi Jinping[]

(15 June 1953; Aged 72) is a Chinese Communist Politician and head of the Communist Government-in-exile, located in Omsk. Born to Communist Revolutionaries Xi Zhongxun and Qi Xin, who fled China during the later stages of the Chinese Civil War. They settled in the Soviet City of Kemerovo before moving to Omsk to be with the government-in-exile led by Mao Zedong, where Xi became the head of propaganda. Xi Jinping joined the Communist Party in 1970, and became heavily involved in the workings of the PRC. After various secretarial positions, he became ambassador to the USSR in 1995, before becoming a member of politburo in 1999 and finally becoming party leader in 2010.

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Albert, Duke of York[]

(14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was the second son of George V, King of the United Kingdom and father of Duchess Elizabeth of Marlborough and Princess Margaret. In 1917, he fled with the royal family to Canada and only returned to his birth nation in 1945, upon the U.S. liberation. In 1920, he was made Duke of York as he was second in line to the throne.

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