Heinz Buckliger

Heinz Buckliger was the fourth Fuhrer of the Greater German Reich, and the youngest ever elected. He assumed the office in 2010, succeeding the late Kurt Waldheim. Buckliger was reform-minded, using the various contradictory notions intrinsic to Nazism to criticize the system and its history while at the same time praising the Reich's founding fathers.

Buckliger seized upon the democratic ideas offered by the First Edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to reintroduce the notion of representative government to the empire. He lamented the dependence of the German economy upon the annual monetary tributes levied against occupied and annexed territory, and took steps to remedy this problem. Buckliger recalled one division of German troops back from the United States. He consulted Heinrich Gimpel, the American analyst in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, about reducing the tribute the U.S. paid to Germany, and agreed with Gimpel's recommendations. (Gimpel, secretly a Jew, gained a small measure of unwanted fame as a consequence of the this meeting).

Naturally, Buckliger faced opposition. Lothar Prutzmann, the head of the SS, acted behind the scenes to discredit Buckliger. Alternatively, Rolf Stolle, the Gauleiter of Berlin, bombastically criticized Buckliger for being too moderate.