Title: List of Hogan's Heroes characters
Content:  is deathly afraid of his wife, and after Hogan manages to get photos of the general with other women in order to blackmail him, Burkhalter frantically agrees to do whatever is necessary to save his reputation. Like Klink, Burkhalter comes to depend on Hogan's explanations to get him out of trouble with the high command when Hogan's schemes result in German failures. In the pilot episode, he was portrayed as a colonel. Major Wolfgang Hochstetter (portrayed by Howard Caine) – Major (Sturmbannführer) Hochstetter of the Gestapo often takes it upon himself to investigate Klink and Stalag 13, or receives orders to 
Title: Howard Caine
Content:  Howard Caine (born Howard Cohen; January 2, 1926 &ndash; December 28, 1993) was an American character actor, dialection and probably best known as Gestapo Major Wolfgang Hochstetter in the television series Hogan's Heroes (1965–71). He also played Lewis Morris of New York in the musical film 1776, and Everett Scovill, a thinly disguised portrait of Charles Manson's attorney Irving Kanarek, in the television movie Helter Skelter.
Title: Howard Caine
Content:  was also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He acted in more than 750 live and filmed television programs, including the western series The Californians, Two Faces West, and The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. Also appeared on Get Smart as Bediyoskin/Dr.Smith Caine is best remembered for his recurring role (37 episodes) as Major Wolfgang Hochstetter on the popular 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Prior to that he appeared on that show in two other roles, in the season one episode "Happy Birthday, Adolf" and the season two episode "The Battle of Stalag 13". The Major Hochstetter 
Title: Stalag 17
Content: The television series Hogan's Heroes (CBS, 1965–71) is based on a similar Stalag. Richard Erdman, who played Hoffy in Stalag 17, guest-starred on Hogan's Heroes as Walter Hobson, a reporter who, with Hogan's crew, is freed in the episode "No Names Please". Erdman is the only star of the movie to have guest starred on Hogan's Heroes. ; "Stalag 17" is a 1973 reggae riddim, composed by Ansell Collins and named after the film. ; The episode "Did You See The Sunrise?" (1982), of the television series Magnum, P.I., opens with Stalag 17 playing on the TV, as the main character, Thomas Magnum, is watching and remembering his childhood, and the 
Title: John Banner
Content:  German town mayor in The Young Lions (1958), Rudolf Höss in Operation Eichmann (1961), and Gregor Strasser in Hitler (1962). The year before the premiere of Hogan's Heroes, Banner portrayed a World War II German "home guard" soldier in 36 Hours (1964), starring James Garner. Although it was a serious role in a war drama, Banner still displayed some of the affable nature that became his defining character trait the following year in Hogan's Heroes. By coincidence, during the final moments of 36 Hours, John Banner's character meets up with a border guard played by Sig Ruman, who had portrayed another prisoner-of-war camp chief guard named Sergeant Schulz in the 1953 film Stalag 17, starring William Holden.
Title: List of Hogan's Heroes characters
Content:  Colonel Robert E. Hogan (portrayed by Bob Crane) – United States Army Air Corps Colonel Robert E. Hogan is the main protagonist of the series, senior officer among the prisoners of war at Stalag 13, and leader of a group of prisoners who secretly sabotage the German war effort and help allies to flee Germany. Hogan commanded the 504th Bombardment Group, and was shot down and captured during a raid on Hamburg when Luftwaffe Colonel Albert Biedenbender (James Gregory) guessed Hogan's plan and developed a successful defense. Hogan graduated third in his military class, and seems to thrive on difficult if not impossible missions. He was described by Biedenbender as having "a flair for the overcomplex" 
Title: Hogan's Heroes
Content:  paradox of his role by saying, "Who can play Nazis better than us Jews?" Klemperer, Banner, Caine, Gould, and Askin play stereotypical World War II Germans, and all had served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II—Banner and Askin in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Caine in the U.S. Navy, Gould with the U.S. Army, and Klemperer in a U.S. Army Entertainment Unit. Werner Klemperer had in 1961 starred as the title character in the serious drama Operation Eichmann, which also featured John Banner in a supporting role as a committed Nazi. Ruta Lee, Theodore Marcuse, and Oscar Beregi, Jr. also appeared in the film, each went on to make several guest appearances on Hogan’s Heroes.
Title: List of Hogan's Heroes characters
Content:  so. Given the high rate of sabotage near the camp, Hochstetter is highly suspicious of Hogan and comes to regard him as "the most dangerous man in all Germany. Hochstetter's position in the Gestapo makes Klink clearly fearful of him, while Burkhalter, who openly despises Hochstetter, is not. Hochstetter's arrogance tends to get the better of him as he fails to see how he himself is manipulated by Hogan: like Klink and Burkhalter, whenever a Hogan scheme results in another German disaster, Hochstetter always accepts Hogan's advice about what to tell his superiors in Berlin in order to save his own 
Title: Hogan's Heroes
Content:  The actors who played the four major German roles—Werner Klemperer (Klink), John Banner (Schultz), Leon Askin (Burkhalter), and Howard Caine (Hochstetter)—were Jewish. Furthermore, Klemperer, Banner, and Askin were Jews who had fled the Nazis during World War II and Robert Clary (LeBeau) is a French Jew who spent three years in concentration camps. Clary says in the recorded commentary on the DVD version of episode "Art for Hogan's Sake" that he spent three years in a concentration camp, that his parents and other family members were killed there, and that he has an identity tattoo from the camp on his arm ("A-5714"). Likewise, John Banner had been held in a (pre-war) concentration camp and his family was killed 
Title: List of Hogan's Heroes characters
Content:  LeBeau trusts her and believes her to be someone who will never sell out to the Nazis, but Hogan is always wary of her and suspicious of her motives. Kilnk is also suspicious of Marya, stating that trouble always ensues when she visits Stalag 13. ; Oscar Schnitzer (portrayed by Walter Janowitz) - Schnitzer is an elderly veterinarian and dog trainer who keeps Stalag 13 supplied with guard dogs. He is a member of the German underground resistance, and secretly in league with Hogan and his men. Schnitzer's truck is occasionally used for smuggling people in and out of camp, 

Question: who played major hochstetter in hogan's heroes?
Answer: Howard Caine.