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Name/Nickname: Dietmar Kammler II; Dietmar Kammler; Dr. C; Dee (Dagmar Himmel-Kammler only)
Gender: Cisgender male
Birthdate/Age/Sign: NA; thirties/forties; Leo
Orientation: Aromantic asexual
Relationship Status: Single
Race/Ethnicity/Nationality: Caucasian; Germanic descent; German
Class: Upper
Religion: Unknown
Profession: Nazi physician in charge of Projekt Weltuntergang
Birthplace/Residence: Germany (deceased during the main story)
Personality/Characteristics
[Coming soon.]
Appearance
Kammler is of average height; with a slender/thin body type; has pale blue eyes; and has light warm gray fur.
Kammler wears spectacles for myopia (nearsightedness). He usually dresses in a three-piece suit and white lab coat; occasionally, especially to official functions, he wears a Nazi Hauptarbeitsleiter (Corporal) uniform/insignia and kepi. He has a near-permanent scowl and almost never smiles. His eyes are often glazed and his appearance haggard due to lack of proper eating and sleeping; he may have a methamphetamine addiction.
Family & Relationships
Dietmar Kammler (Father)
[Coming soon.]
Anna Maria Kammler (Mother)
[Coming soon.]
Dagmar Himmel-Kammler (Twin Sister)
Twin sister and the only person Kammler really cares about or trusts. Slightly older than Kammler is, she takes on the parental role after they lose their parents relatively young, and the two live together as adults. She provides him with emotional support and reassurance so that he's dependent on her and is rather unhealthily clingy, growing jealous when she gets involved with Otto Himmel. She tries to compromise and convince Himmel and her brother to get along but is ultimately unsuccessful. Kammler is devastated by her death, which he blames on Himmel and his son Kolten; without her mediating influence, he becomes more fanatical, joins the Nazi Party, and his experiments grow even darker.
Otto Himmel (Brother-In-Law; Supervisor; Enemy)
Army captain who saves Dagmar from drowning; the two grow close despite Kammler's disapproval over his poor social class. Himmel attempts to remain on civil terms with Kammler, yet Kammler shuns all his efforts and even attempts to attack him; he accuses Himmel of starting the fight, but a witness claims otherwise. This leads to a rift between them all which never heals. Kammler blames the birth of Himmel's and Dagmar's son for Dagmar's death, but then attempts to have Himmel killed so he can assume custody of his son as an experimental subject. He chafes constantly at the fact that Himmel now supervises him and controls whether he keeps getting funding or not.
Kolten Himmel (Nephew/Ward/Test Subject)
Kammler's nephew, the mentally disabled son of his sister Dagmar and her husband Otto Himmel; Kammler despises the child, and Himmel, for causing Dagmar's death. Upon learning that Kolten's rare blood type makes him an excellent test subject, Kammler first tries to convince Himmel to allow this, then when he refuses, orders a hit on Himmel. The hit fails, but Kammler gains custody of Kolten anyway and successfully uses the Doomsday serum on him. He treats Kolten much better than his other test subjects, partly because he's family, mostly because he's afraid of Himmel.
History
[Coming soon.]
Kammler In Heaven
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Trivia
*The first known writing I can think of where Dr. Kammler appears is "Broken Ghost," an adult scene about what Silver Rat experiences following his capture in Project Doomsday headquarters. In this scene, Kammler orders a Nazi soldier/guard to punish Silver after interrogation under torture has proven fruitless; Wolfstein is also present as a witness. Kammler is never referred to by name as it didn't exist yet, and I believe that, at the time of writing, this character was not specifically intended to be the same character who's running Project Doomsday; over time I decided to simply combine the two indistinct doctor characters. As for the Nazi soldier who brutalizes Silver, this is an early, also unnamed prototype of Sergeant Kaspar Lange.
*Same as with Kolten Himmel II, I've recently had to change his designation from "Dietmar Kammler" to "Dietmar Kammler II." This is because of a throwaway scene in Dagmar Himmel-Kammler's blog writeup where she and Otto Himmel are thinking of names for their upcoming baby; they agree on the name Anna Maria for a girl, as both Dagmar's and Himmel's mothers were named Anna Maria. For a boy, they agree on the name of Himmel's father, Kolten, as Dagmar says her father's name was Dietmar--same as her brother, who despises Himmel. To name their child Dietmar "Hardly seems appropriate," Dagmar says.
*Judging by his sister's blog writeup, he has a naturally nervous, confrontational, rather histrionic personality; still, I suspect that after joining the Nazi Party and going to work in Projekt Weltuntergang, he gets addicted to Pervitin (methamphetamine), as he's near-constantly amped up, paranoid, and overly aggressive, frequently taking out his rage and frustration on his test subjects, like Teal Rat.
*Technically, throughout Kolten's involvement in Projekt Weltuntergang, Kammler is his legal guardian, though he obtains this position through deceit, having attempted to have Kolten's father, Otto Himmel, killed, and forging his signature on papers he presents to the psychiatric clinic supervisor and Major Jäger.
*[Coming soon.]
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