Otto Witte

Otto Witte (October 16, 1872 – August 13, 1958) was a German circus acrobat and fantasist who said that he managed to be crowned King of Albania.

In 1913, when Albania broke away from the Ottoman Empire, some Albanian Muslims invited Halim Eddine, a nephew of the Sultan, to come and be crowned king.

His claims also include that he took a substantial portion of the kingdom's treasury,[1] and along with Schlepsig he managed to escape the palace with the aid of the harem, and eventually made their way out of the country.

The Berlin police later allowed his official identity card to bear the artistic pseudonym ehemaliger König von Albanien ("former King of Albania").

[citation needed] Otto Witte's story was adapted by Harry Turtledove for his novel Every Inch a King (2005), which puts it in a high fantasy setting.