PCBaller World/Octavian "Occo“ Hauptmann

Octavian "Occo" Hauptmann is a native German Politician, Novelist, and Chief Political Advisor to the Chancellor of East Greenland.

He started his career not as a political theorist, but as a Fantasy writer. His fictional works were widely congratulated by the normally snobbish literary community of Germany as interesting political theory "disguised" as a Fantasy adventure. He went on to write some political theory as well, theorizing about religion and global relations, and he was one of the many theorists to predict the collapse of the Liberal World order. During the collapse of Germany, he was a vocal supporter of North German separatism, and he joined the LNPD after the North actually seceded. Later he changed parties to the ADPN and eventually left his ancestral home for East Greenland, where he was integrated quickly due to his Lovecraftian faith. In 2031, he joined the PCOP, he wrote a new book, one that was widely condemned as propaganda for the Lovecraftian church, though nonetheless still much read overseas, and there are rumors that it has become part of the East Greenlandian school system. This lead to most of his works being banned in Greater Illinois and its puppet states.

Eventually, he was appointed political advisor to the Church-Government, and quickly climed the ranks to become chief political advisor to Chancellor Czekay. He has never stopped writing political theory and even Fantasy novels, though they are way less read now then they were pre-collapse.

Childhood
Hauptmann was born as Octavian Winterhoff on the 15th of May, 2004, in the East Frisian (German) city of Leer. His childhood was calm and sheltered, as he grew up in a well-off family in a well-off neighbourhood on the peripheries of Leer. He was diagnosed with Autism in his fourth year of school, which resulted in him needing a personal school companion until the eleventh school year. His later school time unfortunately overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused him many problems. As an autist, he needed stability, and this pandemic completely turned his world upside down. Eventually, he changed schools multiple times and eventually graduated from a therapeutic boarding school in the german city of Bonn, after which he never pursued any higher education.

Early Career
Winterhoff's first job was a small practical at a museum in Bonn. He worked there as part of his chool curriculum, and he quickly learned that he was not made for long work days. After the end of this practical, he didn't apply for another job for years. Instead, he began writing books. His first novel was a fantasy story with strong political undertones, which was unsurprisingly not widely read and was later described as rudimentary and "just not very good" by the author. His real breakout success came in 2026, with another fantasy story set in the same universe as his first, the same amount of political undertones, and this time, more literary experience backing it up. It was picked up by a semi-big german publisher, and sold extremely well. During all this time, he moved back from Bonn to his hometown Leer, where he bought a small apartment and stayed in touch with his family. His life continued pretty much without any big changes for a few years, in which he diversified his writing with two political pieces, one titled "The lie of the Perfect Gods", and another titled "World on the way to Chaos: Thoughts on the Neoliberal status quo" , the second one selling extremely well in political circles during the time leading up to the Collapse.

During the Collapse
When the USA collapsed, Octavian saw his prediction coming true. He had, of course, planned for this, and had written another book, "Resurrection of Diversity: Why we need an Independent North Germany", which he published only three months before Germany indeed fell apart and the North seceded. During that time, he supported his extended family with money and services, as well as campaigning hard for strong local East Frisian institutions as a member of the German Greens, a party which he had joined in 2023. Ultimately, he was the closest thing to a winner in this crisis of crises, as he was now widely seen as a selfless visionary, who used his considerable wealth to help his community instead of hoarding it.

Time in North Germany
After East Frisia joined the North German People's Republic, the Frisian Green Party was subsumed into the LNPD. Octavian could keep effectively all his political power, because he was more than happy to work together with the Left-Nationals, and he was actually a relative of a high-ranking LNPD official from Hamburg. However, aside from being an official member of the LNPD and voting on most important party issues, he was barely active in the party. Instead, he focused on his personal life, as he met Adrian Hauptmann, who he would later marry. He also wrote more novels and took on a job in a maritime trading operation, as his wealth had been greatly depleted due to his generosity during the collapse. He also became a Lovecraftian at this time, both because his fiancée was one and because he liked the concept of divinity not as a good thing, but as a neutral at absolute best and a destructive force at worst. This conversion also got Octavian Hauptmann the attention of the East Greenlandian government. He was invited to an audience with the Master Preacher, Foreign Secretary and Vice Chancellor, who wanted to convince him to leave North Germany, to settle in Greenland, and to help the Church of the Great Old Ones win favor abroad with his texts. He initially hesitated, but accepted the offer, moving to Greenland in 2030.

Time in East Greenland
In 2030, Hauptmann and his fiancée bought a home in Khavv Byerekth, a small town in the South of the East Greenlandian Nation. The couple married in New Rlyeh, and the family of the Author visited Greenland, where they had an audience with the Master Preacher. The Hauptmann household was one of only few East Greenlandian households with internet access, mainly so the accomplished author could conduct research and keep contacts with family and friends in Germany. During this period, he would also pick up writing again, eventually publishing a few works that would become the gold standard of East Greenlandian political theory. Octavian and Adrian Hauptmann joined the Progressive Church Overwatch Party in 2031, and while Adrian became a regular party member, Octavian was appointed political advisor to the mayor of Khavv Byerekth, due to his past, which was not in practical politics, but in theory. Over the next few years, he would leave the town behind and get involved in the politics of New Rlyeh, until he ended up as Chief Political Advisor to the chancellor, at that time still the reactionary chauvinist Paul Kämmerer. He would later claim to have been verbally assaulted multiple times by the Chancellor. During the Eastern Crisis, East Greenland joined an alliance with Indonesia. Hauptmann was extremely unhappy with this, and he wrote a book about international relations, one which indirectly attacked the Churches alliance to an Imperialist state. This book sold almost no copies in Greenland, as its publication was sabotaged and suppressed by the state, but Hauptmann managed to get a copy of it to a North German publishing company through the internet, where it helped him build an image as the Only Sane Man in Greenland. Eventually, the government changed, but Hauptmann managed to keep his position. During the later years of the Eastern Crisis, he and his husband visited Europe multiple times, wanting to ensure safety for their families and to understand the geopolitical implications of the war. It just so happened that they were still in North Germany when Indonesia started their attack on Greenland and forced basically the entire society into the underground bunker network, staying out of danger from the beginning of the very short war to the end. They eventually returned to East Greenland to help rebuild the destroyed country, and Octavian managed to keep his position as Chief Political Advisor during the reconstruction efforts, a position that he has held ever since. He since only got into the limelight when he visited Greater Illinois a few months ago, where he gave a speech in favor of better cooperation between the two states.