Hans Hüttig

**Hans Hüttig** (born 5th April 1894) is a SS member, former Nazi concentration camp commandant, and the Reichskommissar of Reichskommissariat Ostafrika. Compared to the other Reichskommissare in Africa, Hüttig is the most radical in his methods and beliefs.

## Biography

### Early life

Hans Hüttig was born on the 5th April 1894. The son of a carpenter, Hüttig's father would eventually open a shop selling photographic equipment and this became the family trade, with Hans Hüttig's brother a founder of Zeiss Ikon. Sent to a boarding school in South Germany, he attempted to enter the army in 1911 but failed the exam and returned home to work as a salesman in his father's shop. Early in 1914, he left the shop to take a post with an import-export company in German East Africa.

Following the outbreak of the First World War, Hüttig enlisted in the German Imperial Army, seeing action in the East African Campaign and eventually rising to the rank of Feldwebel. Wounded in December 1917, the military hospital where he was being treated was captured by the British Army. Thereafter, Hüttig was sent to a POW camp in Cairo where he was held for two years.

### Career

Hüttig returned to Germany in March 1920, working initially at the shop again before filling on a number of clerical jobs. Hüttig joined the right-wing Der Stahlhelm in 1925 although he claimed that this was largely to feel a sense of belonging rather than because of any deep political convictions. After running his own photography shop (which closed in 1930), Hüttig enlisted in the SS in March 1932 at age 37 as an unpaid volunteer and he joined the Nazi Party soon afterwards.

Following the Nazi's seizure of national power in 1933, Hüttig was offered and accepted a full-time billet with the SS as part of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Camp SS). For the next six years, Hüttig spent his time rotating through the concentration camps and being trained for a career in them.

While he is shown to run his Reichskommissariat, he does not receive the same amount of recognition that Siegfried Müller or Wolfgang Schenck does, due to their status as war heroes, something that angers him greatly.

He is the only African Reichskommissar who is shown to actively enforce racial policies. Additionally, unlike with Müller or Schenck, he will actively forbid the natives from joining the SS, restricting its membership to Germans. As a result, this has led to him having the smallest army of the 3 Reichskommissariate.

## In-game

Hüttig will start the game in control of Reichskommissariat Ostafrika. After the Boer rebellion, he will form the Afrika-Schild with the other two Reichskommissariate and the Boer Republic.

Should Hüttig take the "Brudermord" focus during the South African War, or if the Schild survives after the end of the war, he will invite Schenck and Müller to his manor for a party, but then kill Schenck and Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (who Müller sent in his place), seize control of the other two Reichskommissariate, adopt Spartanism, and declare himself Reichsführer of his own empire, the Großafrikanischer Reichsstaat (Greater African Reich). However, this backfires spectacularly, as he is declared a traitor by whoever is victorious in the German Civil War and is cut off from Germany's aid. Additionally, he fails to take into account how much the native SS had contributed to the other two Reichskommissariate, as well as the fact that his empire is very unstable due to how quickly it was constructed. As such, it is a matter of time before he is assassinated by Otto Förschner, leading to the collapse of the Reichsstaat. The faster it collapses, the more stable the nations that form afterwards will be.

## Trivia

At one point in the game's development, after the South African War, Hüttig would have been a potential Reichskommissar of Ukraine under Albert Speer.