Greg Wietersheim



Greg Donald Wietersheim (August 15th, 2306 - ) is current Party Secretary of the Moderate Party of Dorvik, Senator for Largonia and former senior economist at the Commercial Bank of Largonia.

Personal Life
Greg Wietersheim was born into old aristocratic family in Valu, Largonia. His mother Elizabeth was a housewife, deeply religious & also contradictive personally whereas his father Charles was more moderate land owner who just wanted to make business & educate his children well. Despite the wealth of his family, Greg had to work long days in kale fields as his father wanted him to respect hard working. Greg's social contacts were mostly limited to the children of other upper class families as he had a home teacher instead of him going to public school.

At the age of 13, his father sent him to private school at Paddock to get high quality teaching and "more national perspective" as he put it. Greg excelled in history, geography and psychology, but got weak grades at maths and foreign languages. In September 2325 he went to study economics at Paddock Business School and graduated in just two years as junior economist after which he got a job from local investment company. His father died at October 2329 and as Greg's old & weak mother Elizabeth couldn't take care of the lands anymore, they were sold for construction businesses which secured her peaceful & financially secure oldness. Greg's mother died at February 2331, leaving hefty inheritance for Greg who was family's only child. He bought himself a fine villa from upper class district at Paddock and continued his job in investment business. At June 2331 he met 24-year old Jessica Edwards at local upper class party and started dating her, getting married in September 2331. However, the relationship didn't stand long and they broke up at July 2333.

At September 2334 the company where Greg was working for went bankruptcy and he was left without a job but not for long. At January 2335 he got a new job from the Commercial Bank of Largonia, enterprises being main customers in addition to wealthy individuals. At April 2337 he met 34-year old Hilda Beckenbauer who he married after 9 month relationship with her in January 2338. The marriage was little bit longer than previous one, ending at May 2341 after much consideration of Hilda. At August 2342 Greg was promoted into senior economist.

Political Life
Wietersheim's political interest had started when he actively followed 2340 senate election campaigns, supporting ACPD canditate. At January 2343 he joined to form new party, the Moderate Party of Dorvik which was formally established at March 2343. Due to good knowledge of economics and determination, he was elected to party's county committee of Largonia at May 2344, becoming its chairman at next September and at January 2346 he was elected to Senate from Largonia. At Spring 2346 he was already made Minister of Science & Technology and at June he dared to challenge Carl Stohlberg at party secretary elections. Due to his good connections on party leadership and support within economic liberals, he got as many as 94 votes from 200 even though this was still a defeat for him. At June 2349 he lost election for vice chairman for incumbent Edwin Price but eventually replaced Carl Stohlberg as party secretary, beating his opponent Richard Baker. In January 2350 Wietersheim was made Minister of Trade & Industry and he has already planned to propose various bills regarding competition of market and employment.

Greg Wietersheim is an expert in economic issue, but also determined politician full of confidence and energy. He doesn't avoid challenges or hard situations, right on the contrary he runs into and tries to solve them. Furthermore, Wietersheim is also master debater and can use brilliantly the body language. He has slowly strenghtened his position in the party and currently his influence is seen only second to chairman Harper himself. Party insiders see it quite possibly that Wietersheim succees Harper at 2352 or 2355 at latest.

Criticism

 * Wietersheim's critics regard him as "sneaky opportunist" who acts behind the scenes and do anything to achieve power. They say that at Spring 2349 Wietersheim strongly promoted a joint cabinet with DCMLU & GC(VU) but when it failed he quickly changed his views and abandoned the cooperation, favouring coalition with ACPD & NatPro. At June 2349 party assembly he tried to replace vice chairman Edwin Price as the latter one was seen as relatively inactive & invisible leader in that time but Wietersheim failed in this.


 * Wietersheim has been accused of taking bribes from Kirlawan fascists so that the Commercial Bank of Largonia would grant them a huge loan without any financial guarantees. Wietersheim has outright denied these claims.


 * There are rumours that the reason why Jessica Edwards left Wietersheim at July 2333 was that he was violent towars her. However, there are no evidence what so ever to point this to be true.