The Admiration List (AL) — formally The Admiration List — was a neo-monarchist political party in the Kingdom of Kruhlstutt, founded in 1964 by Lord Admiral Otto Teichmüller. Composed of old-money aristocrats, naval officers, and traditional steel magnates, the party demanded the repeal of the 1964 constitutional reforms and a return to absolute monarchy under the House of Kruhl.
The name referred to the party’s reverence for the “Admirals of the Turnip Winter” — the naval commanders whose strict enforcement of the export embargo against the Vosti Empire had starved the continent into republican revolution. Teichmüller viewed Kruhlstutt’s democratic transition as a catastrophic surrender of martial glory.
Electoral history
The AL captured 40 seats at the 1964 General Election under founder Lord Admiral Otto Teichmüller, but was locked out of power when Tobias Brandt’s SWL won an outright majority. The old-right Kruhlstutt Conservative Party of Erich Rosler finished second that year; the two right-wing lists competed for overlapping aristocratic and property-owning voters until the Conservatives collapsed into Tillmann Jurgens’s KU after 1969.
The party’s influence peaked in the 1974–1984 Jürgens era, when Prime Minister Tillmann Jurgens needed AL votes to govern. Teichmüller extracted billions of Krones for “brown-water” naval patrols on Lake Vokavovic, triggering tense standoffs with Kresimirian border authorities near Cetingrad.
The 1983 Creuzholz Strikes destroyed the party’s leverage. Workers refused to fund archaic shipyards while urban wages were frozen. In the 1984 election, the SWL swept back to power under Wilhelm Aris, and Teichmüller retired. His granddaughter Isabel Teichmuller inherited a fading party that bled seats throughout the 1990s before formally dissolving in 1999, merging its remaining reactionary elements into the National Front.