(B. 1907)
Kaiser Louis Ferdinand is the current Emperor of Germany, second son of Kaiser Willhelm III. His older brother, who was heir apparent, perished during World War II fighting against French forces. Louis Ferdinand was not raised for the throne; he had always been more interested in business and engineering, pursuing friendships with entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford and Willy Messerschmitt (with whom he worked to design German aircraft before and during the Second Weltkrieg) rather than German noblemen and politicians. Upon his older brother's death, he was forced into a position which didn't quite suit him as Crown Prince of Germany. Louis Ferdinand rejected the Emperor's wishes for him to enlist in the Luftwaffe, choosing instead to help coordinate Germany's military industry and logistics.
Following the war, Louis Ferdinand toured Europe to mend relations with the war-torn continent, focusing on establishing relationships between House Hohenzollern and the region's greatest industrialists. In 1951 his father perished, and he ascended to the throne as Kaiser Louis Ferdinand, Emperor of Germany. His crowning speech focused on European brotherhood, including a positive mention to Germany's "misguided European brothers" in the Soviet Union. His reign has been marked by the development of democratic institutions and closer integration with the free world, government policies collectively known as the Neuordnungprogramm (New Order Program).
Despite this, his reign has been marked by a number of faceoffs and crises, including the Second Colonial War and the Vietnam War.