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{{Infobox Character
|image=Christof.png
|gender=Male
|family=[[Ernest Sievernich]] <small>(adoptive father, deceased)</small><br>
Unnamed child<ref name="chap135">{{cite chapter|135}}</ref>
|nationality=German
|occupation=Politician
|status=Alive<ref name="am21">''[[Another Monster]]'', chapter 21, "[[Another Monster#Chapter 21 - Petr Čapek (September 2001; Frankfurt)|Petr Čapek]]"</ref>
|manga=Volume 15, chapter 2:<br>
"The Man Who Saw the Devil"
|anime=Episode 59:<br>
"[[The Man Who Saw the Devil]]" 
|japanese=[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%83%E4%B8%AD%E9%9B%85%E5%BF%97 Masashi Hironaka]
|english=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Willingham Travis Willingham]<br>
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philece_Sampler Philece Sampler] <small>(child)</small>
|french=Phillipe Bozo
|german=[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Kohn Christopher Kohn]
|korean=[https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%95%EC%9A%B0%EC%84%9D Woo-seok Jeong]
|spanish=Albert Trifol Segarra}}
{{Nihongo|'''Christof Sievernich'''|クリストフ・ジーヴァーニッヒ|Kurisutofu Jīvānihhi}} is [[Johan Liebert|Johan's]] "disciple" and one of the survivors of [[Kinderheim 511]]. He and Johan reunite 10 years after they escaped the orphanage.

==Personality==
Christof has a highly manipulative and provocative personality, possessing a knack for getting under people's skin. While he may seem similar to Johan in some ways, particularly in regard to their shared manipulation tactics, they could not be more unalike; where Johan can remain calm and impassive in response to most situations, Christof tends to display a lack of control over his emotions.

==Biography==
===Surviving the [[Kinderheim 511]] riot===
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When the riot between the Kinderheim 511 children and instructors broke out, Christof and two other boys hid inside of a kitchen sink cabinet. The three children crouched afraid, hungry, and thirsty inside. When the noise from the massacre outside had eventually died down, Christof told his companions that the killings were likely over and that they would all go crazy if they stayed inside that small space. One of them volunteered to check if it was safe, but he never returned, so Christof convinced the remaining boy that the first one must have abandoned them. Next, the second boy volunteered to assess the situation outside. Before he departed, Christof asked the boy not to betray him and to retrieve him if it was safe. However, that boy also never returned, so Christof decided to remain there to ensure his personal safety. He would drift in and out of consciousness for days, until finally the cabinet door opened and he saw Johan holding out his hand, inviting him to come out and saying that he had a "plan". The two became friends and promised each other that they would reunite in ten years.

===Life during his adoption===
====[[Erich Klemperer]]====
[[File:Klemperer.png|thumb|left]]
Christof was then taken by [[Erich Klemperer]], an escapee from East Berlin during the Cold War who became a food trader. The man was rumored to have a sideline system of smuggling orphan children from the East Berlin border to sell to childless westerners. He sold Christof to [[Ernest Sievernich]], who was the head of one of the largest financial powers in Germany before his sudden death in 1996<ref name="am21"/>, and one of the four individuals behind a prominent Neo-Nazi group along with [[Helmut Wolf]], [[Petr Čapek]], and [[Gunther Goedelitz]].

Klemperer was killed by a man who believed aliens were communicating with him. Johan was able to send him a message and wrote Klemperer's name in a sandbox located within Griesheim Park. It was thought that Johan had this done in order to destroy the link between Christof and his connection with Kinderheim 511.{{cite}}

====[[Frieder Schelling]]====
[[File:Frieder.png|thumb|Frieder Schelling at the age of 21.]]
Despite being an adopted child, Christof was heavily spoiled by his father, and was even seen as the heir to his father's position; consequently, he was sent to one of Frankfurt's most famous universities. There, he lived a hedonistic lifestyle and got a girl named [[Frieder Schelling]] pregnant, who worked at a cafe on Seiler Street near his university. She gave birth to his child when she was 17<ref name="chap135"/>, but was hushed up about the scandal by being given a large sum of money to provide for herself and her child. Her parents opened a general store in that area with the money she received.

Schelling was murdered by a man who thought himself to be a vampire who required the blood of young virgin girls to survive. When [[Rudy Gillen|Gillen]] asked him why he picked an adult woman who was not a virgin, he said it was because a "real" vampire asked him to do so. The man also mentioned that the request was made by writing letters in a sandbox -- the very same one the alien fanatic spoke of in Griesheim Park.

====[[Fritz Overt]]====
[[Fritz Overt]] was an employee at Bilker Investment Bank who had an exceptional work ethic and a commendable employee record. People who knew him also swore he had lived a good personal life. He was about to reveal a corporate finance scandal before being murdered by [[Johan_and_Anna%27s_Foster_Parents#Rheinhard_Dinger|Rheinhard Dinger]]. Dinger had killed him because he saw his name written in the same sandbox where the "vampire" and the alien fanatic saw the names of their victims.

Again, this murder may have been done by Johan to protect Christof's company, which had been funding the plot of General Wolf, Ernest Sievernich, Peter Čapek and Professor Goedelitz for the last twenty years.

===[[Petr Čapek|Čapek's]] "Plan"===
====Reunion with [[Johan Liebert|Johan]]====
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Petr Čapek became interested in Christof and wanted to transform him into a "monster" by introducing him to Johan. However, what Čapek didn't know was that the two were actually friends from long ago. Under the organization's eye, Christof had been only seen at parties, shaking hands with countless people before leaving. Martin Reest met Christof in Jahreszeit Hotel, where they spent some time talking about the "end of the world" and Martin's past. Christof's manipulative characteristics and effects on his discussion partner were noticeable during this talk. When their conversation was over, Martin got up to exit the room but passed by Johan on his way, trying his hardest not to look at the young man. It was obvious that the discussion left pretty severe consequences on Martin's mentality, putting him in a state of shock, though it is hard describe if he was blanketed by fear or anger.

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Thereafter, Christof would meet with Capek and other members of his organization, though it was unclear whether his loyalties actually extended to them or whether he had just used them as a means of contacting Johan and ascending to prominence. In particular, Christof exhibited a lack of respect toward the Baby, even threatening to usurp his status with Čapek. Though the Baby would rebuff Christof's attempts at discomforting him and reminded him of his inferior position, it was clear that his comments had struck a nerve. Indeed, Christof<ref>[[Another Monster]], chapter 24, [[Another Monster#Chapter 24 - Collapse (November 2001; Düsseldorf)|Collapse]]</ref> may have been responsible for recruiting an assassin named [[Carmen]] to get in the good graces of the Baby and then murder him, helping to cast the organization he represented into disarray.

====Encounter with [[Eva Heinemann|Eva]]====
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At a later point, Christof went to an empty apartment to meet Johan again. However, Johan failed to make an appearance before Eva showed up and demanded he tell her where Johan was. Upon telling her he had no idea, she responded by shooting off his right ear with a silenced pistol. When she asked him what Čapek's purpose was behind having the two of them meet, he said Čapek failed to realize that he and Johan knew each other for more than 10 years. He then started to talk to her about their past in Kinderheim 511.

When he finished, Eva asked him what Johan's plan was. He refused to say, and instead he threw a book at her whilst taking the gun from her hand, saying that he and Johan were "going to make the world his". He was about to shoot her when Tenma appeared and ordered him to put down the gun. Christof refused and aimed at Tenma, so the doctor had no choice but to shoot him. Tenma and Eva asked him to tell them where Johan was, but he still was pretending he didn't know. Tenma toned down his temper and told Eva to call the hospital to prevent Christof from dying due to blood loss. Eva disagreed with Tenma because they still hadn't heard a word about Johan from Christof, but followed his order regardless.

When Eva left the car, Christof finally decided to tell Johan's location to Tenma and says that Johan wants to see him. Eva returns to find Tenma gone, having left a message for Christof to relay to her: she should not follow him anymore because he doesn't want to drag her into more danger than she is already in. Eva then broke down in tears, leaving Christof confused as to why she was in so much despair. Christof's fate after being taken to the hospital is left unknown.

==[[Another Monster]]==
: ''Main Article: [[Another Monster]]''
Christof is only mentioned on few occasions in the novel, but he is implied to still be alive and involved in a dispute with his uncles and father's ex-wife over his inheritance.<ref name="am21"/> It is also revealed that his father's cause of death was apparently by suicide, though his ex-wife has fallen under suspicion for potentially being involved.<ref name="am21"/>

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