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This is a list of characters who appeared in the manga/anime that played a minor role and are named. To see the list of characters who appeared in the series but were not named, please see this list: Unnamed Characters.
Miss Meles[]
Miss Meles (Mereth in the English dub) is Doctor Julius Reichwein's secretary.
When Roberto shows up to kill Reichwein, Meles' habit of forgetting to lock the door turns out to be beneficial when it allows Reichwein to escape.
Mayor Roedecker[]
When Johan Liebert was taken to Eisler Memorial Hospital, Kenzo Tenma was told by the director to remove himself from the boy's operation and attend to the mayor instead.
Tenma refused the director's orders and performed surgery on the boy, resulting in the mayor's death as no other doctor was skilled enough to save him.
Erich and Christianne Fortner[]
Mr. and Mrs. Fortner became the adoptive parents of Johan and Nina after the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Liebert. After a few months, Johan left Nina in their care and ran away from home. They printed several articles in the local newspaper about his disappearance, but their searching was to no avail.
They had decided to tell Nina the truth about her past when she turned 20. However, when the time came, they chose not to do so, ultimately deciding to let Nina believe that she was their real daughter. Johan had them murdered by Detective Messener and Detective Müller on the night of the twins' 20th birthday.
Karl Brandt (a.k.a. "Lawyer")[]
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Karl Brandt was one of the terrorists Otto Heckel arranged for Dr. Tenma to treat. Tenma refused to tend to his wounds after he learned that they were received in a terrorist attack he instigated earlier that morning at Erfurt Station. Brandt then told Dr. Tenma that he was, in fact, a lawyer from East Germany (hence his codename "Lawyer") and committed the act to take revenge on GWE, a West German firm that had taken possession of former East German landholdings after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and specifically to assassinate Friedrich Wands, the president of GWE.
After conversing for a few minutes, Dr. Tenma performed first aid on him by stopping the bleeding of a major artery in his armpit and instructed his companion to take him to a proper hospital. Brandt, together with Steindorf, was apprehended by the policemen who arrived after they let Tenma escape.
Max Steindorf (a.k.a. "Secretary")[]
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Max Steindorf was the Lawyer's subordinate, also known as "Secretary" due to his position as a politician's secretary in former East Germany. He was the only one who was left to help the Lawyer after he was injured by the police. It is evident that he was very loyal to his boss, as seen through his constant threats to take Tenma's life if he refused to treat him.
Doctor Schumann[]
Doctor Schumann is a doctor serving a village in Germany.
Schumann's life before moving to the village somewhat parallels what Tenma's future was expected to be like before it was derailed by Johan. He, like Tenma, lived in a large city, got in good with the director and wrote all his papers, and even got married to the director's daughter. However, he became so focused on moving up in his career that he failed to realize his wife was experiencing liver failure. She passed away, causing him to realize the value of human life. This event led him to leave the big city and move to a small town where he could personally connect with all of his patients.
Petra[]
Petra is a woman living in the same town as Doctor Schumann. She was widowed and her son left her five years ago. However, she still made goulash for two people out of habit, which was one of the reasons why Schumann always stopped by. During Tenma's visit, he diagnosed her with a subarachnoid hemorrhage and operated on her. Her son wanted to catch Tenma so his promotion would be secured, but Schumann appealed to his conscience by saying that the man saved his mother.
Heinz[]
Heinz is the son of Petra and a cop who lived in the same town as Schumann. He was very focused on moving up to a higher-ranking position, so much so that he often disregarded his mother and her loneliness.
When he learned that Tenma was in his hometown, he became determined to apprehend him, even if it meant interrupting his mother's surgery. Schumann lectured him about the severity of the issue, calming him down enough to let the doctors work. Later, Schumann convinced him that it would be wrong to jail Tenma after everything he had done, so Heinz called his superiors and apologized, saying he had "accidentally mistaken another man for Tenma because they were both Asian".
Mr. Kipper[]
Mr. Kipper is a journalist from the Hamburg Talk. He was reporting on the homicide of a middle-aged woman in Hamburg, Germany, and Inspector Lunge falsely disclosed to him that he suspected Kenzō Tenma, the chief suspect in the broader middle-aged couple murders, was involved.
However, when Kipper realized the lead may have been false as suspicion for the crime fell on the woman's nephew, he confronted Lunge for giving him false information, saying that the paper would have to print a retraction. Lunge insisted that he keep the story in spite of its falsehood, blackmailing him with information he learned about an extramarital affair Kipper was having and threatening to tell his wife. Kipper, though furious with Lunge, agreed to leave the story as-is in order to entrap Tenma, who Lunge knew would want to investigate.
Giebel[]
Giebel was a major business figure residing in Hamburg, Germany, who, due to a grievance of estrangement and mounting debts, murdered his aunt and uncle to inherit their money. As a result, his crimes were conflated with the broader Middle-Aged Couple Murders occurring throughout Germany, which had been attributed to Dr. Kenzo Tenma (and were in fact being conducted by Johan Liebert and his accomplices), and Inspector Heinrich Lunge was assigned to investigate the crime scene by the BKA.
Though increasing evidence indicated that neither Tenma, nor anyone involved in the Middle-Aged Couple Murders, was involved in the crime, Lunge had no interest in apprehending the actual responsible party, sensing an opportunity to finally capture his long-time quarry and obsession, Tenma, by making him believe that his "alternate personality", Johan, had in fact committed the crime and thereby attracting him to the residence of Giebel's aunt. Still, Lunge questioned Giebel in an unnerving manner, implying that he was the guilty party, likely to toy with him. Giebel vehemently denied his guilt and repeatedly asserted his innocence, but his pleas fell on deaf ears, since Lunge viewed him as a means to an end.
However, the increasingly desperate Giebel, believing that Lunge was obsessed with apprehending him, followed him when he went to apprehend Tenma at his aunt's home, and, as he moved in to capture Tenma, delayed Lunge by stabbing him, proving his guilt and confessing while doing so. However, the determined and impassive Lunge shoved Giebel aside contemptuously and shot him in both legs, before pursuing Tenma. The stab wound could have proved fatal were it not for Tenma's later intervention when Lunge faded out of consciousness from blood loss. later while recovering in Hospital Lunge's boss indicated that His efforts had led to Giebel confessing to the murders while Tenma had escaped.
Angelica Belger[]
She is the daughter of a state legislator. She was set up on a date with Tenma by Doctor Becker. Becker described her as "a woman with beauty and talent," and said that those two things equal a night of love. Tenma laughed and said he had to meet her first. He was walking to the restaurant where they were supposed to meet, but saw a store selling a cuckoo clock like the one Adolf Junkers wanted as a kid. He stopped by the store to purchase the clock, thus making him late for the date.
When he arrived at the restaurant, the lady wasn't there anymore, and Doctor Becker said it was because he was late. It was actually because Eva followed Tenma to the restaurant and provoked her until she was gone.
Barbara and Fritz[]
After Michael Müller quit the police force, he joined a syndicate and lived in Dusseldorf. His superiors instructed him to pose as a businessman, as it made for a good cover-up.
Every morning while sitting in a cafe, a woman and her little boy would pass by him. Müller described them as "a daily reminder of the regular, honest life he'd given up." He eventually took the initiative and started talking to her. Before long, they were married and moved to Nice, France. Fritz was reluctant to show affection towards his new father at first, but eventually they grew closer and the boy even started dreaming of the day he and his father could go fishing together. This would never come to pass, as Muller would die from a gunshot wound received later that day.
Horst Grossman[]
Horst Grossman was a doctor who lived in Pforzheim, Germany. He was considered to be a model citizen and was known for his excellent herbal blend tea.
Behind the mask of the kind doctor, he was one of Johan's loyal followers. Known by the Baden-Württemberg state police as "The Dissector", he successfully killed 28 people (two of which were part of the middle-aged couple serial killings throughout Germany) and left absolutely no evidence. Johan killed him shortly before heading to Ruhenheim.
Grossman's first and only appearance is in episode 67 of the anime and chapter 143 of the manga.
Yamamoto[]
Yamamoto was the head of the Munich branch of the Kadofuku company. After Hans Georg Schuwald resumed his financial activities, corporations throughout Germany were trying to get in good with him. Therefore, when Schuwald's secretary (Johan) asked Yamamoto to find a copy of The Nameless Monster, he traveled to the Czech Republic to find one in a moment's notice.
He was also one of Tenma's friends before the incident and was supposed to meet with Heinrich Lunge to answer some questions. Because of his unexpected trip, Yamamoto didn't meet up with the inspector until later that evening at a bar. Lunge saw his copy of The Nameless Monster and began looking into it, which eventually resulted in him traveling to Prague to uncover more about the mysterious Emil Sebe (Franz Bonaparta).
Robbie[]
Robbie was Martin's friend and the proprietor of a diner in Frankfurt that Martin frequented. Though they had a somewhat begrudging if teasing relationship, Robbie grew to know and care for his main customer, despite Martin's complaints about Robbie's inability to remember what his usual order was. He seemed to be aware of Martin's position as a criminal, but kept the knowledge in confidence.
Robbie came to notice a man (who he mistakenly characterized as "Vietnamese or Chinese") was frequenting his diner looking for Martin, which he pointed out to him - as it turned out, the man had come to find the location of the woman Martin was protecting: his one-time fiancee, Eva Heinemann. Later, Robbie would drive Martin, who had sustained a gunshot wound attempting to protect Eva from members of the organization he worked for, to be treated by the man--no less than the fugitive Dr. Kenzo Tenma--and heard Martin's story before he died in Dr. Tenma's care.
Carmen[]
Using the alias Carmen, this young woman was an underworld assassin in Germany. She was rumored to be able to gain or lose more than thirty kilos in a short amount of time, thus making it almost impossible for the police to catch her.
She was hired by Christof Sievernich to kill The Baby.
Rosemary Braun[]
Rosemary is Richard Braun's daughter. She hadn't seen her father since before the Stefan Joos incident and was reluctant to meet up with him again. She finally agreed to, but the night before their reunion Richard met a certain young man and ended up dead.
Martin (Child)[]
Martin was one of the boys Johan taught his "special game" to. The "game" went as following: two children would stand on the ledge of a building with their eyes closed and would walk towards one another; if they actually made it that far, they would then try to push the other off. The winners were the ones who lived, not just the ones who didn't fall. Martin ended up in the hospital after he failed to stay on the building's rooftop. He was frequently visited by Dr. Reichwein, but the psychologist often had to spend more time trying to comfort his mother than interacting with him. Dieter sneaked into the boy's hospital room and the two of them wandered right out. While walking, Martin said that everything in the world was boring except for the "game", and tried to explain its procedure to Dieter.
Dieter didn't really get it, so Martin took him up to a rooftop to explain it better, and in the process tried to force him to play a match. In response, Dieter said he'd never want to play a game like that because he cherishes life's simple pleasures and the people he knows far too much to risk losing it all in an instant. Martin almost fell off the roof after, but Dieter saved him; the boy then started realizing that he didn't want to die either and would stop playing the "game."
Ivan Kürten[]
Kürten was designated by Johan to keep Nina Fortner at Heidelberg Castle until he arrived, with the promise that he would pay a lot of money. When Dr. Tenma showed up, he tried to kill him but Nina stopped him and asked Tenma for something to tie the man up with (the tie Eva gave to him). Both Nina and Tenma escaped and, while his hands were tied up with the necktie and he was unable to move, an unseen figure (presumably Johan) murdered him in cold blood right after the two had departed.
Because Lunge found Tenma's tie at the scene of the crime, he became the primary suspect in the investigation of Kürten's murder.
Edmund Fahren[]
Edmund Fahren was a philosophy major at the University of Munich and Schuwald's Thursday reader. He was befriended by Johan, and the two of them worked together to try and make Schuwald believe he was his son.
When Schuwald's real son, Karl Neuman, entered the picture, Johan put Fahren up to suicide, using his in-progress translation of Caesar's Gallic Wars as an apparent "suicide note".
Stefan Verdemann[]
Stefan Verdemann is the father of the prominent lawyer, Fritz Verdemann, and a Czechoslovakian spy who initially lived in Reichenberg, Bohemia and moved from Sudetenland Czechoslovakia to West Germany and bought a radio station (KWFM) there by 1949, though he did this for patriotic reasons rather than any proclivity towards communist ideology, believing in Sudeten nationalism. However, among those Stefan established connections with was Klaus Poppe, at one point airing Poppe's story "Where Am I?" on the popular radio segment, "Fairytales of the World", and frequently meeting with Poppe in Czechoslovakia, including at the Red Rose Mansion itself in 1966; however, he severed ties with Poppe and his reading sessions after this meeting upon realizing the unethical and sinister nature of Poppe's experiment. His favorite song was "Over The Rainbow", which was part of the callsign he used on his radio station to open broadcasts. Verdemann's father was also in possession of a notebook detailing his interactions with Poppe and others, which later became of interest to Roberto, posing as Fritz Verdemann's legal partner "Alfred Baul".
Ultimately, Verdemann's father was arrested in the 1960's for being a spy and for the murder of a federal politician during the Cold War. He was convicted and sentenced to spend 20 years in prison, but he never made it out of prison and died there in 1972. These events compelled his son to seek a career in law and defend those who he believed were falsely accused by the justice system, since he believed the act was politically motivated against his father. However, later revelations of his father's career prompted him to reevaluate his own livelihood, but, ultimately, Fritz Verdemann realized that his father was not an evil or sinister man, in spite of his shady past and his connections to individuals like Klaus Poppe.
Günther Goedelitz[]
Günther Goedelitz was a professor at Dresden University who was one of four founders of an organization dedicated to making Johan Liebert their leader and acting as his loyal lieutenants. He admired Adolf Hitler, and was a known supporter of the Neo-Nazi movement embraced and led by figures such as The Baby. After Nina was transferred to his residence to await the anticipated arrival of Johan Liebert, Goedelitz elaborated on the organization's goals to make Johan their fuhrer and ascend to greater political power and prominence, resurrecting totalitarianism. However, following their meeting, Nina found Goedelitz and his accomplices dead, probably by the hand of her brother.
Ernest Sievernich[]
Ernest Sievernich is the adoptive father of Christof, he is the late member of the underworld organization in Frankfurt. He is partnered with other members, those include: Helmut Wolf, The Baby, Petr Čapek and Gunter Goedelitz. In reality, the group follows Nazi ideals, under the guise of espousing right-wing oriented politics.
Christof was sold to Ernest by Erich Kemplerer due to the rumors of Kemplerer, having a sideline system smuggling orphan children from the East Berlin border to sell to childless westerns.
Nothing is really known about Ernest, except that he is the head of one the most powerful financial groups in Germany. What little information is given about him is revealed through Eva Heinemann, who is shown to have done research on the Sievernichs, as well as Christof, who talks briefly about him.
Christof entered his father's position as the successor, so he could be able to meet Johan someday.
Erich Klemperer[]
Erich Klemperer is an East German food tradesman responsible for smuggling Christof to West Germany, and eventually selling him to Ernest Sievernich. He was killed by a muscular man with weird glasses that matched his weird obsession: communicating with aliens.
From Rudy Gillen's interview of that muscular man in Pinneburg Prison in Hamburg, it was known that Klemperer was killed at someone's request, because the muscular man's activities were all executed in Lower Saxony, while his murder of Klemperer was executed in Frankfurt. When Gillen asked the psychotic muscular man who requested for the murder of this man, he said a true alien communicated to him through writing on a sandbox that can be found in a park in Griesheim, just outside Frankfurt.
It can be thought that Klemperer's murder was orchestrated by Johan, to eliminate the man who knew about Christof's roots.
Frieder Schelling[]
Frieder Schelling is a 21 year-old single mother working as a store keeper for her parents in their general merchandise store near the University of Frankfurt. When Christof Sievernich attended at the aforementioned university, he fell for the then 16-year-old Frieder, who was at that time working at a cafe in Seiler street and was quite popular among the boys attending that school, until he got her pregnant, with Frieder giving birth at the age of 17. The Sievernich family and constituents, being aware of the implications of Christof's misbehavior, gave Frieder and her family a large sum of money to silence her and also to provide for Christof's child. The money they receive were used to open the general store Frieder have been keeping until she was murdered by a sociopathic fetishist.
During Gillen's interview of Frieder's murderer at Isenburg Prison in Frankfurt, he learned that Frieder also killed at the request of a 'real' vampire. The fetishist was in for the blood of the virgins, because drinking it satiates his sexual appetite. Gillen was quite shocked to learn that the request was made using the same method as the murder of Klemperer: her name was written in a sandbox in Griesheim.
Henning and Franka Heinich[]
Henning Heinich
Henning and Franka Heinich were residents of the small town of Ruhenheim. When Henning thought he heard a distant gunshot from his home, his wife was dismissive and ultimately upset that he had distracted her from the lottery numbers that she was trying to read in the newspaper. However, when Franka subsequently realized that she had the winning lottery numbers on her ticket and that she had won DM 25,000 in currency, Henning promptly went out to purchase weapons in a nearby town, including two handguns (a Walther P99 and a Walther PPK) and an M1 Carbine rifle to protect their financial gains from the townspeople should it become necessary. Despite instructing Franka to keep their lottery win a secret from others, Franka informed him that others might know that she had a lucky ticket, since she secretly used the numbers corresponding to Mr. Konrad's birth date on Konrad's advice; this idea alarmed both of them, as they realized that others such as Herbert Knaup (whom they believed might be armed given the earlier gunshot) and the Sausage lady had seemed to be eyeing them strangely earlier. When they went out into the woods to find Konrad, the two found him dead (through unrelated circumstances) and grew even more paranoid, deciding to conceal his death in case they should be suspected of perpetrating his murder.
Franka Heinich
However, Henning and his wife would later lament not informing anyone else of Konrad's untimely demise, as it would turn out that the murder had been perpetrated by Roberto in anticipation of the ensuing Ruhenheim massacre. As the massacre took hold of the town, the two sought sanctuary at the Hotel Versteck with Mr. Poppe, Heinrich Lunge and Wolfgang Grimmer, loaning the group the weapons that they had bought, which Lunge used to confront Roberto and Grimmer used to protect everyone. When hired hitmen laid siege to the hotel, Henning and Franka were non-mortally wounded, but Henning and his wife later mourned the death of Grimmer following the gunfight, alongside Kenzo Tenma, Wim Knaup and Mr. Poppe (revealed to be Franz Bonaparta). The couple managed to survive the massacre together by the time the authorities finally arrived, and when Henning realized he had dropped the lottery ticket at some point in all of the chaos, his wife reassured him that this did not matter, and that she was just glad they had survived and that they still had each other.
Mr. Heitmeyer[]
According to Another Monster, he was the lieutenant of a prominent figure in organized crime and protected the syndicate's assets. At one point, under his auspices, the syndicate invested their funds in an underground banking organization that facilitated money laundering. However, upon hearing rumors about the underground bank (secretly run by Johan Liebert), he insisted that the syndicate withdraw its assets, which he proceeded to do shortly before it imploded into management chaos and betrayal. Later, after most of his family disowned him due to the nature of his business and his superior attempted to have him assassinated due to facilitating financial transfers with a rival syndicate, he went into hiding near Füssen at a mountaintop enclave.
There, he sought medical attention from Dr. Kenzo Tenma, who was working as a black market doctor at the time, and happened to be accompanied by Dieter and Otto Heckel. Heckel introduced him to his recipe for chicken marengo (Napoleon's favorite dish) at lunchtime, and he found the meal to be quite delicious as the four ate outside together. He finally relented to having his bodyguard share a meal with them, in spite of his duties to guard the only accessible path to the villa. Dieter went down the mountain to retrieve him, but instead found Eva Heinemann, accompanied by Roberto, both of whom had come seeking Tenma, knowing of Heitmeyer's location and his connection to him. However, Eva had no intentions of seeing her former fiancee dead, in spite of her animosities, and was wounded in the leg by Roberto.
Luckily, she was treated by Tenma after Dieter stayed by her side and, afterwards, she was left in Heitmeyer's custody. When she regained consciousness, he took care of her and they shared a lunch of chicken marengo in the preceding period, with him commenting on how lucky she was and what a beautiful day she had lived to see.
He was interviewed by Werner Weber, under the condition his real name not be used.
Helmut[]
Assigned as a sentinel, he guarded the trail leading up to his boss' villa to prevent any intrusions onto the property, since the trail was the sole means of accessing the mountaintop.
While Dieter was playing nearby, he asked him if he was hungry and wanted to join them for lunch, but he just stood with a taciturn expression and continued to act as a lookout in accordance with his orders, causing Dieter to shrug and leave him behind. When Heitmeyer decided to relieve him of his duties and let him come to lunch in light of the beautiful day, he sent Dieter to invite him up to the villa. However, before Dieter could reach him, he was shot and killed by Roberto with a silenced pistol, as Roberto was trying to access the premises with Eva Heinemann to kill Tenma.