Sven Kraus

**Post-Apocalypse**

* Leader of a Factory group

## Appearances

**Sven Kraus** was an antagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in Here's Negan. He was a science teacher and, after the Apocalypse began, a higher leader of a Factory group.

## Overview

After escaping from the prison after joining a riot during the initial outbreak, he found his way to the Factory where he immediately took leadership of a group and grew close to another higher group leader, Sven Kraus. After a bout of starvation overcomes the Factory as runs are stopped after a herd intercepts the gates, Sven and Freddy brutally kill a man and, as they are desperate, eat and cook his body parts.

Despite the starvation having been settled after the groups bound together and got rid of the herd, Freddy and Sven continued to kill middle-aged men and, over time, murdered and ate six men: Clarence, Edgar, Horace, Murray, Oscar and Jeremiah. Although, after Negan and Foxy had joined the Factory as Loners, they are obliviously found by Negan and Theresa to be eating Jeremiah's body parts and the Loners create a group in order to take the pair of men down.

After planning to kill Alfred, however, the group discover that they are unable to help him. Despite this, Tank steps forward and sacrifices himself for the larger picture, assassinating and stabbing Freddy in the neck inside of the courtyard successfully, resulting in his own death and the fall of his and Sven's reign.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Sven was born on August 24, 1965. He was the son of Vera and Augustus Kraus with two older brothers: Frank and Martin and lived near Reston inside of a small farm. He was raised to hunt, despite mentioning that he loved it, he was also not as adept as his brothers and instead occupied himself with school and science, specifically biology, where he grew to morbidly obsess over it- every single bone, muscle and limb committed to memory. Because of this, however, every night for a week, he strangled a chicken in the coop to death and buried their bodies elsewhere, mentioning that he had no reason to do so, and it was quite like an urge.

Later, he adopted a job as a butcher and would frequently eat raw meat and became interested after he rarely got sick afterwards. Despite this, and having good schooling regarding science, Sven left the butchers and instead became a science teacher, where he remained working throughout his life. He suffered with self-loathing however and constantly compared himself to his brothers, with no partner and living nearby to his parents whilst his elder siblings continued to live their life elsewhere and with families of their own.

Three days before the outbreak, Sven left the farmhouse on a trip.

## Post-Apocalypse

After the outbreak, Sven immediately stumbled upon the Factory and, within a day, became somewhat of a leader figure inside of a group of men. From there, he became close with another higher leader: Fredrik Kile. After a herd of walkers cut off the Factory from going on supply runs, they suffered a bout of starvation and Sven and Freddy, desperate and ravenous, brutally murdered a man and cooked and ate his body parts. Following this, the groups came together to rid themselves of the herd successfully and the starvation came to a stop, but Sven and Freddy continued their streak of cannibalism and within two weeks of the outbreak, had killed and ate five men.

## Death

Killed by

* Negan

After Negan and Theresa witness Freddy and Sven eating the missing mens' body parts, the Loyalists are created. Eventually, after realizing that they won't be able to save Alfred's life, Tank attacked and successfully stabbed Freddy in the neck inside of the courtyard, killing him.

## Killed Victims

This list shows the victims that Fredrik has killed:

* Clarence
* Edgar
* Horace
* Murray
* Oscar
* Jeremiah
* Wade (Caused)
* Numerous counts of zombies

## Appearances

* Chapter 9 (No lines)
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13 (Mentioned)
* Chapter 14 (No lines)
* Chapter 15 (Mentioned)
* Chapter 16 (Mentioned)
* Chapter 17 (Mentioned)

## Trivia

* Freddy was arrested for manslaughter in 2006 and was convicted for 25 years.
* He may have inspired Negan's hairstyle.
* He is said to have always worn a dark trench coat.