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Augustus – herr of Neustatter’s home village, married to Frau Sophia

Bracht, Jakob – Catholic, a NUS Army recruit looking for another chance, carries lockpicks

Bretagne, Giulio – captain of Bretagne’s Company, one of the seven mercenary outfits in the Grantville area, runs a well-trained and well-supplied organization

Brenner, Otto – born 1603, Lutheran, farmed in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, NESS agent, the invisible man

Carroll, Sara – an up-timer, a NUS Army recruiter, scheduled to teach horsemanship

Carstairs, Joel – assistant manager, Sommersburg and Carstairs construction

Claussen – Lutheran (Flacian) pastor in Neustatter’s home village

Deibert, Johan “Hans” – Lutheran, a member of his village’s militia, came to Grantville early on and fought in the Croat raid

Ennis, Leigh Ann Haun – married to James Marvin Ennis, daughter of Fred & Julia Haun, mother of Julia, James Frederic, and Carrie

Ennis, James Marvin – married to Leigh Ann Haun, USE Army Engineering Corps

Felke, Horst – Grantville High school student, Catholic, the leading advocate of the Critical (Alexandrian) text of the New Testament within the Bibelgesellschaft

Forster, Josef – a friend of Johann Kirchenbauer, shortstop on his Little League team, lives in Spring Branch

Frost, Dan – up-timer, Grantville Police chief, up-time through March 1634

Gerhard, Johann – historical down-timer, Lutheran (Flacian), theology professor and dean of the theology faculty at the University of Jena, considered the third most important Lutheran theologian ever (behind Luther and Chemnitz)

Goschin, Ursula – Lutheran (committed Flacian), married to Stefan Kirchenbauer, mother of Johann, a very good cook

Green, Albert “Al” – an up-timer, pastor of First Baptist Church in Grantville, member of the Bibelgesellschaft

Groenewold, Gertrud “Trudi” – a prostitute in Erfurt

Grönloh – a sergeant in Schlinck’s Company

Haun, Fred – an up-timer, married to Julia Gunderson, owns land east of Grantville High School on both sides of Buffalo Creek

Haun, Julia Gunderson – an up-timer, married to Fred Haun, from Minnesota. Mother of Johnny F. (Hearts & Minds team in 1634: The Ram Rebellion), Walter, and Leigh Ann Ennis

Heidenfelder, Lukas – born 1602, Lutheran, farmed in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, NESS agent, partier, carries a knife

Heinrich – an older teamster based out of Saalfeld

Holz, Pankratz – Flacian Lutheran pastor holding services in a storefront church in Grantville, critical of the Bibelgesellschaft

Hudson, Eric Glen – up-timer, graduated from Grantville High School in 1631, NUS Army assigned to military procurement in Erfurt, then SoTF National Guard stationed in Halle as a railroad scheduler, member of the dinner-and-a-movie club (“Breaking News,” Jay Robison, Grantville Gazette 5), and occasional 250 Club patron (“The Baptist Basement Bar and Grill,” Terry Howard, Grantville Gazette 32), dating Gena Kroll

Huffman, Maxwell “Max” – up-timer, NUS drill sergeant, see “Greetings!” Mike Watson, Grantville Gazette 68 for his further adventures as an SoTF Marshal

Kellarmännin, Barbara – a Grantville High School student, Brethren (i.e., Anabaptist), a member of the Bibelgesellschaft, quiet and observant, see “The Observer,” Grantville Gazette 78 and “Clique, Clique, Boom,” Grantville Gazette 82 for her further adventures

Kirchenbauer, Johann – son of Stefan Kirchenbauer and Ursula Goschin, born not long before the Battle of Dessau Bridge in 1626, delighted to be in Grantville, the pessimist

Kirchenbauer, Stefan – born 1593, Lutheran, married to Ursula, father of Johann, farmed in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, NESS agent

Kircher, Athanasius – historical down-timer, Catholic, Jesuit, priest assigned to Grantville, omni-disciplinary scientist: Paula Findlen’s up-time biography of him (2004) is titled Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Kraft, Heinrich “Heinz” – married to Helene Olbrichtin, a farmer in Kleinjena, Saxon County; introducing up-time foods and crops, see “Occupied Saxony,” Grantville Gazette 55 and “The Saale Levies,” Grantville Gazette 56 for his further adventures

Kräusin, Anna – married to Wolfram Kuntz, not long before the Battle of Dessau Bridge, Lutheran, several years older than Astrid, a skilled seamstress

Kroll, Gordon – up-timer, married to Maurine, works in military procurement in Erfurt

Kroll, Jennifer “Gena” – up-timer, graduated from Grantville High School in 1634, martial artist—see “American Past Time,” Deann Turner and Mike Turner, Ring of Fire II, dating Eric Glen Hudson

Kroll, Maurine – up-timer, married to Gordon, mother of Gena, works in the medical clinic in Erfurt

Kuntz, Wolfram – born 1594, married to Anna Kräusin, Lutheran, farmed in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, took care of the sick and wounded, NESS agent

Lorenz – a teamster based out of Saalfeld

Mehler, Johann – an SoTF National Guard lieutenant in the Fulda Barracks Regiment

Meisner, Georg – Grantville High School student, Brethren (i.e., Anabaptist), member of the Bibelgesellschaft, took the forensics course while his sister stayed late to read Al Green’s books, one of the first CSIs down-time

Meisnerin, Katharina – Grantville High School student, Brethren (i.e., Anabaptist), member of the Bibelgesellschaft, within it the leading advocate of the Majority (Byzantine) text of the New Testament

Moser, Eberhard – a lieutenant in the SoTF National Guard assigning mercenaries/contractors to supply convoys

Musaeus, Johannes – historical down-timer, with Katharina Meisnerin and Horst Felke becomes one of the leaders of the Bibelgesellschaft

Neustatter, Edgar – born 1604, farmed in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, Lutheran, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge (1626) as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, leader of Neustatter’s European Security Services

Pfeffer, Elisabetha – daughter of Phillip Pfeffer and Agathe Traudermännin, about 4 years old

Pfeffer, Phillip – married to Agathe Traudermännin, father of Wilhelm and Elisabetha, Lutheran (Philippist—named for Melanchthon, has lived in Grantville since mid-1632 doing day labor

Pfeffer, Wilhelm – son of Phillip Pfeffer and Agathe Traudermännin, roughly the same age as Johann Kirchenbauer

Recker, Karl – born 1600, Lutheran, formerly a blacksmith’s apprentice in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, NESS agent

Richards, Preston “Press” – an up-timer, Grantville Police chief from March 1634 on

Rowland, Mimi – an up-timer, one of the Grantville Police Department dispatchers

Rummel, Maria – Wilhelm’s sister

Rummel, Wilhelm – leader of a group of thirty-one refugees forced out of their Franconian village in 1633 for supporting the NUS

Schaub, Ditmar – born 1604, Hjalmar and Astrid’s cousin, Lutheran, farmed in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, leader of NESS Team One

Schaub, Hjalmar – born 1608, Astrid’s brother and Ditmar’s cousin, Lutheran, farmed in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, fought at the Battle of Dessau Bridge as part of the village militia, captured and incorporated into Wallenstein’s army, leader of NESS Team Two

Schäubin, Astrid – born 1612, Hjalmar’s sister and Ditmar’s cousin, Lutheran, one of Herr Augustus and Frau Sophia’s maids in a village in Holstein-Gottorp, NESS secretary

Schlinck – captain of Schlinck’s Company, one of the seven mercenary companies in the Grantville area, big on brute force

Schrödinger, Herr – a NESS client, manufactures something for the USE military that allows him to stay in really good inns

Seidelman, Gottlieb – a NUS Army recruit, went into the Reserves and is taking classes to go into law or perhaps police work, considered an intellectual in the ranks

Sophia – Frau, married to Herr Augustus

Sperzel, Dietrich – a NUS National Guard sergeant in the Fulda Barracks Regiment

Stroh, Richart – Lutheran (Philippist), a big, unyielding man

Stull, Dennis – up-timer, works in military procurement in Erfurt, Noelle Murphy Stull’s father

Thomas, Jr., Harley – an SoTF Marshal, formerly a NUS Army drill sergeant, served with Max Huffman and Archie Mitchell in both jobs

Traudermännin, Agathe – married to Phillip Pfeffer, mother of Wilhelm and Elisabetha, Lutheran

Wesner, Casimir – a library researcher in Grantville on behalf of Saxe-Altenburg and the von Hessler family, see “The Researchers Spiritual and Temporal,” Grantville Gazette 84) for more about him

Wolf, Hans – a sergeant in Bretagne’s Company

Zeithoff, Bernhardt – amtmann (administrator) of the village of Flieden


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