Alternative History

This is a list of Presidents of the Magi (German: Präsidenten der Magie) of the Rätian Union. This position was one of three presidencies within a triumvirate, nicknamed the Presidency of the Magi by historians to differentiate it from the other two, which are called the Ergacratic President and the Apostolic President. The President of the Magi derived its name from the tradition of the Biblical Magi, and its position as the chairman of a council of wise elders in charge of several similarly themed tasks. Unlike the other presidencies, the President of the Magi was selected every ten years at random from a small pool of eligible candidates. In theory this allowed a balance of the power of the elected and hereditary positions in the government, although in practice the candidates for the position were often of the same class or family as the other presidencies.

The first recognized President of the Magi is Sebastian Gauck, a companion of the Thin White Duke and a Jungist reformer and theologian. The position was famously held for a time by the Thin White Duke's son Hugh the Heir, elevating his rivalry with Henry I, Apostolic President on the eve of the creation of the Rätian Union. Subsequent presidents were often from a religious or theological background.

List of Presidents[]

Picture Name Reign Notes CoA
Saintjohnthealmoner Sebastian Gauck
(1460-1523)
13 August 1517

9 August 1523
(56 years, 20 days)
Companion of the Thin White Duke and theologian
Portretten van Sir Thomas Gresham en Anne Fernely Rijksmuseum SK-A-3118 Hugh the Heir
(1477-1534)
9 August 1523

9 August 1533
(10 years)
Also Duke of Thuringia Hugh the Heir COA Morte
Anthony van Dyck- Portret van pater Jan-Karel Della Faille s.j Martin Breuer
(1515-1571)
9 August 1533

9 August 1543
(10 years)
Also Head of the Grand Synod
Philipp Melanchthon 1 Thomas Jung
(1508-)
9 August 1543

14 April 1549
(10 years)
Son of Konrad Jung
Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Porträt eines Mannes Iephthae Waller
(1507-1572)
14 April 1549

14 April 1559
(10 years)
Cranach, Lucas 1 - Reuss Lucas Manasseh
(1494-1571)
14 April 1559

14 April 1569
(10 years)
No portrait Jacob Kolumbus
(1528-1578)
14 April 1569

2 February 1578
(10 years)
No portrait Berend Ullmer
(1540-1586)
2 February 1578

17 May 1586
(10 years)
No portrait Jair von Jenagotha
(1503-)
17 May 1586

1 December 1586
(10 years)

Footnotes[]

This article is part of Merveilles des Morte.