Ernst Falstrong

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Minister Falstrong (archival image)
Gender:	Male
Affiliation:	Galactic Empire
Occupation:	Minister of the interior
Status:	Deceased (murder)

Ernst Falstrong (Japanese: エルンスト・ファルストロング) was a political figure from early Imperial history. He was the first director of the Department of Social Discipline and also the head of the Galactic Empire's Ministry of the Interior (he served both posts concurrently).

Contents 1 History 2 Legacy 3 Appendices 3.1 Appearances

History

As a close friend of Rudolf von Goldenbaum Falstrong, then head of the Ministry of the Interior, was given charge of the newly-created Department of Social Discipline and tasked with enforcing the Inferior Genes Exclusion Act. Those deemed undesirable to the state were imprisoned, tortured, sterilized and murdered in the greatest campaign of systemic genocide in human history.

Due to his accomplishments as Director of the Department of Social Discipline, Rudolf von Goldenbaum conferred upon Falstrong the title of Count; however he was caught in a republican terrorist bombing plot soon after and died when a neutron bomb struck his vehicle. After his death, Kaiser Rudolf executed 20,000 people as "conspirators" of the attack. (LOGH: 'Julian's Journey, Mankind's Journey')

By the time of his death, Falstrong's Department of Social Discipline had murdered an estimated 1.3% of the Empire's total population--approximately 3.9 billion people. Many of those subjected to the IGEA were targeted not due to the legal criteria of the legislation, but rather according to Falstrong's personal whims. (Legend of Galactic Heroes Volume 1: Dawn)

Legacy

Falstrong's position as head of the Department of Social Discipline and his abuse of that position mark him as one of the worst mass-murderers in human history, and a symbol for the brutality and corruption of the Imperial nobility.

While the sheer number of those murdered by his agency is horrific in its own right, the campaign of mass-sterilization produced a much greater affect on humanity, drastically reducing the total human population in subsequent generations. 500 years after Falstrong's death, the human population would only have recovered to 12% of what it had been prior to the IGEA holocaust.

Appendices

Appearances