Trying to dethrone a guild master that's been inactive for 12 years in a guild with three members

I am one of three members of a guild on the Lothar realm and the guild master and other member have both been inactive for 12 years. Six months ago “Unknown” left the guild and I assume that was the last time any activity has happened in the guild itself. I recently restarted playing this character but due to rank I am unable to dethrone the guilds inactive guild master. It has been a while but if I remember correctly I was a signatory on the original guild charter. It is possible that I created the charter and was the original guild leader but there was a time I was not in game myself some time around 12-15 years ago for a year or so. It’s all so hazy…
I’d like to know if there is a way to claim leadership of this guild on this character.
From what I have read there is no way to make this happen although I’ve also seen a few similar cases where a GM has intervened to make things happen although opening a ticket certainly isn’t what it used to be…
Worst case scenario is that I pull him from this guild to join my main one that I created in 2005 but I’d also like to keep this one if it’s at all possible.

The option should be available if your character his high enough rank (officer). If not (which appears to be the case here), then there is no way, and there’s nothing blizzard will do to bypass that.

I’ve seen this over in CS, and this is often the response:

Feel free to search or even post in CS in the hopes a rep may answer you but I think that it is true, they are hands off, they have created a system where you can dethrone, IF your rank is high enough within the guild. Rank 1 thru 3 I believe this is where you can use the system to dethrone.

If you do not have one of those ranks, you cannot.

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Thanks!! I don’t see it working out for me but I’m going to at least give it a shot