Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, simply Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and often nicknamed the Lion of Africa, is one of 'Die Drei Generäle' of the German Free State. Formerly, Lettow-Vorbeck was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the East Africa campaign in the Great War. Following the Spartacist Revolution of 1920, Lettow-Vorbeck and others fled to East Prussia and was granted protection by Poland, establishing the Freistaat.

Lettow-Vorbeck is a staunch monarchist, believing that the only way for the Freistaat to rival that of the German Socialist Republic would be to have a monarchy as its figurehead, either Kaiser Wilhelm II or his son, Wilhelm III. The other two of the triumvirate, namely Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, disapproved of this idea, believing that reinstating a monarchy would cause instability and set a hotbed of revolution, possibly even a Spartacist one.