PRUSSIAN BLUE - Characters - Alphabetical
Max
Amann
Chairman of the Reich Media Chamber, published Hitler's Mein Kampf, 2nd
signatory on Bormann's Swiss bank account
Paula
Berge
Johan Diesbach's older sister in Hamburg
Albert
Bormann
Martin's brother, another of Hitler's deputy chiefs of staff, chief of the Obersalzberg
Chancellery
Albert
Bormann
Martin's younger brother, chief of Main office, Hitler's private secretary
Martin
Bormann
Hitler's deputy chief of staff
Johann
Brandner
Local photographer in Bertesgaden, sent to Dachau for resisting the sale of his
property to the Nazis, later released
Dr. Karl Brandt
Hitler's personal physician, an SS major
Hugo Brückmann
German publisher, helped Bernhard Weiss & his wife escape Germany to Great
Britain
Wilhelm Brückner
Hitler's local adjutant in Obersalzberg
Benno
Diesbach
Johan's son
Frau
Diesbach
Johan's wife
Johan
Diesbach
Owner of a salt mining business, with a mine in Rennweg, lives in Kuchl
Johan Jacob Diesbach
Berlin paint maker who invented the color Prussian blue in 1706
Gotthard Farber
One of Bormann's aides
Dr. Karl Flex
Civil engineer at the Berghof (Hitler's home) who was shot on the terrace
Ann French
German spy implanted in Britain's MI5, framed by Bernie for Hennig's murder,
Bernie's assigned murder target
JohannesGeiger
Gamekeeper/hunter at Landlerwald forest
Ernst Gennat
Bernie's former mentor in the police, suffering from cancer
Major Hans Geschke
Gestapo chief in Saarbrücken
Bernhard Gunther
Narrator, former German police officer, aka Bernie, Bertolt Gründgens
Elizabeth Gunther
Bernie Gunther's estranged wife
Peter Hayer
Ornithologist/beekeeper at Landlerwald
Harold
Hennig
German spy killed by Bernie several months in the past
Rudolf
Hess
Hitler'deputy Führer
GReinhard Heydrich
Gestapo head
Heidi
Hobbin
Commissioner of the Berlin police, aka Heidi the Horrible
Major
Högl
Kaspel's superior officer, deputy head of the RSD in Obersalzberg
Rudolf
Höss
Freikorps member, former student of Kadow, friend of Bormann
Walter
Kadow
Schoolteacher, Freikorps member, accused Martin Bormann of raping his daughter,
accused of betraying Schla-geter then killed by Bormann & Höss
Elizabeth Kaltenbrunner
Ernst's wife
Ernst
Kaltenbrunner
Head of the SS & police in Austria, member of the Reichstag
Arthur
Kannenberg
Former Berlin restaurateur, house manager of the Berghof
Freda
Kannenberg
Arthur's wife
Herman Kaspel
Heydrich's spy in Obersalzberg RSD
Friedrich Korsch
Former police colleague of Bernie's, one of Mielke's Stasi men who hangs Bernie but
releases him just before he dies
Joseph & Karl
Krauss
Expert safecrackers, incarcerated in Munich's Stadelheim Prison
Gustav
Landauer
Jewish communist in the Bavarian Socialist Republic, translated Shakespeare's works
into German, killed in Stadelheim Prison in 1919
Max Merten
District court councilor in Berlin
August
Michahettes
Engineer, head of state construction bureau
Gen. Erich Mielke
Deputy head of the Ministry of State Security (GDR, Stasi), former Nazi
Rolf Müller
Local roofer in Berchtesgaden
Arthur
Nebe
Boss of the Kripo (abbrev. for Kriminalpolizei), criminal investigative department
Hans-Hendrik
Neumann
Heydrich's adjutant
Johann
Rattenhuber
Head of the RSD, Högl's superior
Bruno
Schenk
First administrator of construction projects at Obersalzberg, section head of P & Z,
Bormann's man who served compulsory purchase orders on Berchtesgaden homes for Nazi officials
Albert
Schlageter
Member of Freikorps, anti-French saboteur in 1920s, executed after being denounced
Schmidt
Freikorps member, friend of Bormann, probably real betrayer of Schlageter
Hildegard Steininger
Bernie's former girlfriend in Berlin
Gerdy
Troost
Adviser to Hitler on building, art & design, manager of her deceased husband Paul's
architectural firm after his death in 1934
Udo
Umbros
Assistant hunter at Landlerwald
Gisela
Von Westarp
Countess thought to be having an affair with Kaltenbrunner
Dr.
Wachter
Lawyer who rented garage space to Flex for his Maserati
Dr. KarlWasserstein
Jewish ophthalmologist gone missing in Munich whom Gerdy wants Bernie to find
Hans
Weber
Lead engineer from P & Z construction company
Richard Weber
Director of the Karlsberg Brewery in Homburg where Paula Berge worked
Paul
Werner
Nebe's deputy, state prosecutor from Heidelberg
Winkelhof
Butler at Villa Bechstein where Bernie is staying
Wilhelm Zander
One of Bormann's aides, from Saarbrucken
FRG
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
GDR
Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany)
Karl
2nd of Mielke's Stasi officers who "hung" Bernie, aka "Gene Kelly"
Kehlstein
Game & bird sanctuary
Kripo
Abbreviation for Kriminalpolizei, criminal police investigation department in Nazi
Germany
Lola
Italian Jew who manages the house of prostitutes
P & Z
Polensky & Zollner construction co.
Pony
Johan Diesbach's mistress in Munich
RSD
Hitler's personal security guard
Stasi
Ministry for State Security, secret police in GDR
