Dr. Krieger

**Algernop Krieger**, also known as **Dr. Krieger** or **Krieger**, is a scientist and member of the Invisible Hand, or at least associated with them through Sammael. He is also a disguised bartender in Empire City as part of a cover.

## Appearance

Krieger is a middle aged man with short brown hair and sport's a beard and moustache. He wears a white lab coat and khaki pants along with a yellow dress shirt and dark green tie.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born in the early twentieth century Kriegar was a brilliant teacher, adored by his students at Hamburg Polytechnic. In 1933 he was forced to resign as he was a Jew, whereupon he set about seeking his revenge: he faked his own death (from Tuberculosis), obtained false papers for his birth and education before getting a job working in the Nazi robot program. He was able to convince Hitler to finance his robotic super-soldiers, ostensibly wasting 3 years and millions of Marks by failing to achieve his goals owing to an apparent inability to overcome 'systemic shock' (caused when the remaining body parts reject the robot components leading to agonizing death). It had all been a ruse: his rationale was that every penny 'wasted' on his robots could not be spent on rifles, bullets, bombs, Dust or coal for transporting Jews to concentration camps. It was thus a boondoggle.

It turns out that he had been secretly injecting his subjects with carbolic acid, intentionally killing them, leaving open the possibility that the robot program was not entirely without success. Krieger is shown to murder the Gruppenfuhrer, along with his colleagues and his own nurse (after she denounced him for being a Jew), using robo-Dobermanns. Despite his actions Kriegar's DNA had already been taken and used in a secret cloning program set up by Dr. Von Reichter and several clones were already made by the time the real Kriegar fled Germany. It is unknown what happened to the clones but its suggested that they had been found later, frozen in suspended animation.

It is known at least one is still active well into the twenty first century, nearly eighty years after the end of last Great War otherwise known as World War II. Krieger studied and became accomplished in a variety of different sciences including bionics, electronics, neuroscience, chemistry, biotechnology, surgery, and robotics, but, despite this, never earned a formal doctorate degree of any kind. Doctor Krieger's scientific experiments satirically mirror those of Nazi scientists who evaded death at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial by escaping to South America or continuing to work for the US Army's biological and chemical research division (Chemical Corps), either in the US or Europe. Free of morality, Krieger shares the same dubious moral character and agenda as his forebears, pursuing only the utilitarian goal of power and control - and his own sexual satisfaction. His 'frontier' work operates in the same murky taboo and grey areas of science which include human experimentation(non-consensual), human and animal cloning, human-robot interfacing (cyborgs), biological and chemical agents (nerve gases and psychotropic drugs), advanced AI and robotics.

In Empire City Krieger lived in a run-down, 'transitional' neighborhood which allowed him to focus his salary for 'pet projects.' His apartment is only shown once and is full of strange and disturbing items, such as a skin-colored wet suit and jars of human remains. He temporarily relocated to the island of Mitimotu when his current employer moved there but has since returned to America. Though is often neutral he is often hired by various clients for various experiments that are not all done for the greater good.

## Abilities

Krieger is a scientist who has studied and become accomplished in a variety of different sciences including bionics, electronics, neuroscience, chemistry, biotechnology, surgery, and robotics, but, despite this, has not earned a formal doctorate degree of any kind since he needs to maintain his cover.

## Background Information

Krieger is one of the main characters from the series Archer