History
Little is known of Erich Klugmann's history before his collegiate years, save that he was born to a relatively middle-class family (or what passes for "middle class" within Rheinland's polar divide between rich and poor. Erich's life appeared stable and happy; comfortable enough to ignore the plight of the downtrodden, but with much work to look forward to, to improve his own lot in life. Erich happily accepted this. "After all", he thought. "Kanzler will take care of me, and the entire glorious nation".
Enrolled as a top student at Cologne University on New Berlin, Erich's final thesis to graduate involved researching and compiling a report on the Terroristic movements of Rheinland, particularly the Bundschuh and Hessians. What was clearly expected to turn up as a glowing report on how the Heroic efforts of the Militär to quash the rebellion came to the professor's (And most blatantly, Erich's) surprise when his thesis contained a scathing account on the Kanzler's efforts to stymie free speech and free thought. Thus evidenced by Erich's expelling from Cologne and subsequent questioning of his parents by the BDM, he quietly packed his bags without informing his parents where he was going, and vanished. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that he had been arrested by the authorities on a number of undisclosed charges, and that he had been imprisoned at Vierlande; the last anyone heard from him in many months.
He had in fact been freed whilst part of a prisoner convoy to Omega-11; Hessians timed their raid while the prisoners were placed in stasis pods. Taken to Kaiserslautern Depot as many survivors were (and still are, on such raids), every unlawful group in Rheinland set upon the survivors in a desperate scramble for new, grateful recruits. The Bundschuh's own mentality most appealed to Erich; having nowhere else to go, he accepted their offer for aid.
After rising within the ranks of the Bundschuh and a short-lived membership in the Rheinlandische Volksfreiheitspartei
Personality
Erich is, above all other things, an intellectual. He possesses a quiet and solemn demeanor except as necessary to sway others to his point of view. Presenting a civil and cordial demeanor at most times even towards Rheinland lawfuls, he is notably slow to anger. Many Corporate pilots and Freelance traders that Erich had stopped along the lanes perhaps breathed something of a sigh of relief knowing that he unusually enough never assaults their vessels.
Erich's personal code of honor prevents him from opening fire upon any vessel, whether Corporate or Military, unless he is attacked first. While perhaps inconvenient for garnering donations from passerby on the Lanes, Erich sees his conviction towards maintaining peacefulness a powerful asset towards individuals whose loyalties may be on the fence, to be drawn over to his side.
The above stated, Erich holds no qualms about engaging in a battle already in progress between Lawfuls and Revolutionaries, assaulting non-revolutionary pirates tresspassing within Rheinland's space, or Hispanians of any faction.
Ships
VWA|Erich.Klugmann. Sabre
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Diplomacy
Rheinland
