Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, also known as Craig Era, Dr. Guntram von Shatterhand, Franz Oberhauser and Number One, is a character from the James Bond series.
== Charactah Account ==
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a mysterious and powerful criminal mastermind and the closest figure James Bond ever had to an arch-enemy. As the cruel and unforgiving leader of his Nebulous Evil Organization, SPECTRE, he does not tolerate failures or even mild betrayal, and is known to frequently kill underlings who fail to meet his expectations.
Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 in Gdingen, Imperial Germany; his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence his Greek middle name Stavro. After World War I, Blofeld became a Polish national. As a young man, he was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. He first graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Political History and Economics, and then from the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in Engineering and Radionics. He was then hired by the Polish Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and appointed to a sensitive communication position, which he used for buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Foreseeing World War II, Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them for cash to Nazi Germany. Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence, then moved first to Sweden, then to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish Radio and began to set up his own private intelligence organisation. During the war, he sold information to both sides. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort, and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. Blofeld then moved temporarily to South America before founding SPECTRE.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* 007 James Bond: For Your Eyes Only
* James Bond 007
* James Bond Agent 007
* James Bond: Agent of Spectre
* Marvel Comics Super Special
* The James Bond Omnibus
=== Literature ===
* James Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
* James Bond: Thunderball
* James Bond: You Only Live Twice
=== Movies ===
* Casino Royale
* Diamonds Are Forever
* For Your Eyes Only
* From Russia with Love
* Never Say Never Again
* No Time to Die
* On Her Majesty's Secret Service
* Spectre
* Thunderball
* You Only Live Twice
=== Video Games ===
* 007 Legends
* Cypher 007
* GoldenEye 007
* GoldenEye 007 Reloaded
* GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
== Trivia ==
* In both the books and movies all of the leaders of SPECTRE have numbers as code names. In the books the numbers are random so Blofeld is Number Two. He's changed to Number One in the films, possibly for fear the audiences would be too dumb to tell he's the leader if he doesn't have the lowest number.
* Along with Goldfinger, Blofeld become a widely recognized popular culture symbol of evil and deception. This is shown in that of all the Bond villains of the original continiuty, he's the only one to return in the reboot even after 40 years of having never appeared in a Bond film.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ernst Stavro Blofeld at James Bond Wiki
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