Eugene Kempf

Eugene Kempf (1840 - 1912) was a Creosotian politician, senior advisor, state judicial administrator, and chief of the 'Special Police', the Creosotian secret police force, during the Creosotian Republic from 1890 - 1897. He was one of President Creosote's closest advisers from 1893 - 1897, and commanded a large influence during the Final Jeremboah War. Kempf was instrumental in the show trial and exile of Commander Hudson in 1895, and the attempted arrest of War Minister Taft that same year. He chaired the notorious 'Court of Creosote' from 1894 - 1896, a kangaroo court which tried party members for alleged treasons.

Kempf fell from President Creosote's favour greatly after the calamitous defeat of the Final Jeremboah War, as his superior tired of his endless purges and began to feel regret for the lost ideals of the early Creosotian Republic. Over the following two years Kempf would lose many of his high ranking positions, and was neutered as a political force through demotion to 'Head of Creosotian Immigration and Customs' in early 1897. The formal state pardon of Hudson shortly after was seen by many as an official denouncement of Kempf and his methods during his reign of terror.

In September 1897, with the Republic's disintegration inevitable, Kempf made a last ditch attempt to seize back power. Gathering up what he could of old cronies within the government, and using the border police force he controlled, he attempted a coup d'état against Creosote. The plot was rumbled a few hours prior to its implementation and Kempf's meagre police force was met in the capital by the Creosotian Army, and forced to surrender. Kempf swiftly travelled over the border into Britain.

In 1899 Kempf was brought before the high court in Britain to answer for potential war crimes, including lying to President Creosote about French plans to invade in 1895 to spark the Final Jeremboah War. However, following a fire in Sussex and the loss of vital Creosotian records, he was acquitted of all charges due to lack of evidence. A second trial in 1903 in France itself also failed to gain a conviction, largely believed to be due to bribery by Kempf. Angered by these events, Hudson and Taft came together 1911 with a team of lawyers to build a thorough legal case against Kempf.

In March 1912 there was another move to arrest Kempf, this time with key documents and eye-witnesses to prove his crimes. After evading the authorities for weeks he fled Britain for America on 10th April aboard a passenger ship using forged documents. Unfortunately of Kempf, that ship was the RMS Titanic, and he perished at sea five days later.