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Character Sheet. If you have a better format that is more than this as base standard feel free to substitute yours for mine. Delete anything in parenthesis, anything in parenthesis is simply informative to help you fill out the CS.
Name: Leopold von Hohengrinn
Age: 21
Image/Physical Description: (Images can be modern photos, just need to know what your person looks like)
Leopold has short cropped reddish-blonde hair, piercing green eyes with a hint of blue, and stands roughly 5ft 11 in height. He is rather lean and while not particularly large has managed to survive more than one occasion of close-quarters-combat. He does possess a horizontal scar roughly three inches long across his lower-right stomach from a bayonet wound he received during the invasion of France in 1940.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranks_and_insignia_of_the_Heer_(1935–1945)
(Use above link to help if need be)
Rank: Feldwebel
Position: Platoon/Squad leader
Speciality: (Do you have a specialty) Assault experience.
Bio: Leopold was born in Sigmaringen, South-Western Germany, to the Uradel von Hohengrinn family on October 31st, 1919. Leopold's father Reinhard von Hohengrinn had been an officer in the Imperial German Army during World War I, fighting with distinction on the Eastern, Italian, and finally Western Fronts until the end of the war in November, 1918. Reinhard was not retained when the German military was confined to a 100,000 Reichswehr and lived on the family estate training horses.
Leopold's mother, Viktoria von Hohengrinn (nee Kazarin), lived the life of a noblewoman and raised the young Leopold with his other siblings while their father was away on business. Leopold possessing a younger sister named Erika who was born May 5th, 1924.
After Adolf Hitler and the Nationalesozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) gained power in 1933 Leopold was forced to join the Hitler Youth in the next couple years. However, he enjoyed his time in the HJ, going camping and fishing while learning survival skills. Joining the Wehrmacht in 1938 at the behest of his father, and to follow in his footsteps, Leopold enlisted in the Heer (Army). When war broke out on September 1st, 1939; Leopold fought during the campaign and became acquainted with the Battailon Ebbinghaus, the precursor battalion to what would become the Brandenburger Regiment. Successfully achieving a transfer in February of 1940 for his skills in knowing English as well as Norwegian and French. Assigned to V. Kompanie ZbV during March of that year. Leopold would stay with the company during the course of the Western campaign that achieved the Fall of France and the subjugation of Denmark and Norway. Rising in rank to be a squad/platoon leader by the time 1941 rolled around. Participating in April with the invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece the V. Kompanie sustained heavy casualties during Operation Marita to invade Crete. Bringing in new replacements before, and during the course of Operation Barbarossa which got underway on July 22nd, 1941.
Character Sheet. If you have a better format that is more than this as base standard feel free to substitute yours for mine. Delete anything in parenthesis, anything in parenthesis is simply informative to help you fill out the CS.
Name: Leopold von Hohengrinn
Age: 21
Image/Physical Description: (Images can be modern photos, just need to know what your person looks like)
Leopold has short cropped reddish-blonde hair, piercing green eyes with a hint of blue, and stands roughly 5ft 11 in height. He is rather lean and while not particularly large has managed to survive more than one occasion of close-quarters-combat. He does possess a horizontal scar roughly three inches long across his lower-right stomach from a bayonet wound he received during the invasion of France in 1940.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranks_and_insignia_of_the_Heer_(1935–1945)
(Use above link to help if need be)
Rank: Feldwebel
Position: Platoon/Squad leader
Speciality: (Do you have a specialty) Assault experience.
Bio: Leopold was born in Sigmaringen, South-Western Germany, to the Uradel von Hohengrinn family on October 31st, 1919. Leopold's father Reinhard von Hohengrinn had been an officer in the Imperial German Army during World War I, fighting with distinction on the Eastern, Italian, and finally Western Fronts until the end of the war in November, 1918. Reinhard was not retained when the German military was confined to a 100,000 Reichswehr and lived on the family estate training horses.
Leopold's mother, Viktoria von Hohengrinn (nee Kazarin), lived the life of a noblewoman and raised the young Leopold with his other siblings while their father was away on business. Leopold possessing a younger sister named Erika who was born May 5th, 1924.
After Adolf Hitler and the Nationalesozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) gained power in 1933 Leopold was forced to join the Hitler Youth in the next couple years. However, he enjoyed his time in the HJ, going camping and fishing while learning survival skills. Joining the Wehrmacht in 1938 at the behest of his father, and to follow in his footsteps, Leopold enlisted in the Heer (Army). When war broke out on September 1st, 1939; Leopold fought during the campaign and became acquainted with the Battailon Ebbinghaus, the precursor battalion to what would become the Brandenburger Regiment. Successfully achieving a transfer in February of 1940 for his skills in knowing English as well as Norwegian and French. Assigned to V. Kompanie ZbV during March of that year. Leopold would stay with the company during the course of the Western campaign that achieved the Fall of France and the subjugation of Denmark and Norway. Rising in rank to be a squad/platoon leader by the time 1941 rolled around. Participating in April with the invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece the V. Kompanie sustained heavy casualties during Operation Marita to invade Crete. Bringing in new replacements before, and during the course of Operation Barbarossa which got underway on July 22nd, 1941.
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