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Joined : 14 Sep 2008 Posts : 7

Heinrich was born youngest of 5 other children in Königberg Prussia anno domini 1832, as son of the noble man Wilhelm Friedrich von Batzen. The von Batzen family has served the royal prussian army as officers for generations and was pretty renown for their stength of will and courage at war time. From an early age onward the education inside the clan was focused on the later military career, which meant a high amount of disciplin was required even by the youngest member Heinrich. The same time Heinrich learnt to walk, he had to learn to march and doing military drill as well. Wilhelm Friedrich taught his children at home before they entered elemntary schools. His focus was that they aquainted with doctrines of humanism, which was en vogue at that time. This included a solid knowledge of Latin and ancient Greek as well as profund knowledge of Homer and and ancient philosophy. In the course of the premilitary training Heinrich also had to learn the basic of military history which include reading the ancient classics as well as von Clausewitz and the field reports of those who fought Napleon earlier.

At the age of 5 Heinrich was taken to hunt with his father in order to get aquainted to fire arms. He als was trained at fencing, which was one of the sports noble men in prussia still had to be educated in. Turning 6 he was trained in horse riding while at the same time getting taught the philosophy of prussian country man Immanuel Kant. Despide being 6 years old Heinrich was not to enter a regular school like many of the other did. He was send to an military academy, which was only possible because of the good name Wilhelm Friedrich von Batzen enjoyed among his comrades. Heinrich was the youngest cadet ever to enter the well known "Königlich Preussische Akademie der Infantery".

He showed high effort and was praised as one of the most talented students this famous academy ever had. At the age of 10 he joined the academy's amateur wrestling team and continued to impress his superiors. During his time at the academy he become five times prussian champion and one time vize all german champion.

Turning 15 Heinrich was handed the officers patent and the rank of Lieutenant of the Prussian Infantry. This was also the end of his time in the academy and the start of his military career. Unlike many of his contemporaries Heinrich was not engaged directly in the revolutionary attempd to unify germany. At 1849 as a captain his infantry battalion was send to Denmark to fight for the new german empire proclaimed. Althrough his unit performed well, the battle was lost due to a lack of sport by german noblety and military supply. The prussian Kind was not interested in becoming the all german emporer from the hands of the congress in Frankfurt. Nevertheless Heinrich was decorated with medels for his bravery and good tactics on the battlefield. His unit had not lost a single man, which was very uncommon at those times.

During the time of restauration Heinrich was send to Russia as an support for local military attache. In Petrograd he also took made friends with some russian officers. One can say that he enjoyed his stay in Petrograd but it ended far to soon.
Louis Napolean the french emporer had immensely increase spending on military issue which led the prussian generality and the prussian king to think that war among the german states and france might be at hand. Thus Heinrich now at the rank of colonel was send to the french border as a military observer. At the same time tensions between Prussia and Austria began to rise about who is going to be the dominate power in german politics.

In 1866 open war between Prussian and Austria broke loose an Heinrich was send to battle again, now as Brigardegeneral having a whole divison under his command. At the battle of Königsgrätz he succesfully tricked his austrian opponent into an ambush which led the prussian troups to win this decisive battle, which also meant the end for the german federation. Now Prussia was the dominant force in Germany and Austria sperated. Heinrich was expected to get the hight prussian medal for his great deeds at the battleground.

On Heinrich's way back home to Königsberg his was hit by a lightning on horseback. He never arrived at home and deeming to be dead, yet no corpse was ever found of him.

Anno domini 2008 somewhere in Poland. Two factory worked found a man dressed in a miliary uniform. He was heavily injured, speaking no a single word of polish. They reported him saying in german, that his name was Heinrich Wilhelm von Batzen and that he was returning from a war with Austria. Even at the local hospital noone knew what to make of this strange person. Contacting the german embassy also was no help, since no data of this von Batzen was availeble. This guy just appeared to be some lunatic, yet he was not brought to a senatory.

After two months Heinrich was released from the hospital. The world he found outside was no longer the one he used to know. All the people spoke a language he did not understand. He knew the places yet everything was different. There were strange motorized vehicles all over and strange little boxes people used to communicate. But far worse was that nobody seemed to require his services. After some further month Heinrich made it to the german border. Here at least he understood the people, while the world was still as weird as in Poland to him. He tried to hire at the "Bundeswehr" hoping to do something similiar to what he has done in his old life, but at the recruitment center he was told that is technical skills were not sufficent and that he was too old to be trained anymore.

Heinrich quickly realized that he needed to earn some money to make a living and so he started to be engage in occasional illegal fights. Due to his great skills in amateur wrestling he did very well in these and soon was recommended into the world of professional wrestling.
He was told that if he want to make it big he would have to leave germany and has to try his luck in America, where wrestlling was supposed to be much bigger.
So Heinrich took this advise and set over to the USA by ship, since he did not dare to enter those strange vehicles called airplanes.

With a lousy english he managed to get book for some indy shows until he was discovered by the talent scouts of TIZ, where Heinrich plans to make it big.

Joined : 14 Sep 2008 Posts : 7

On Heinrichs character:
As should be obvious Heinrich has got a military background. He was raised in an enviroment, where honor and discipline where virtues of highest priority. Besides this he is a very polite guy with a very huge sense of justice due to his humanitarian education.
Since comes from another time he fundamentallly lacks understanding of the modern world and is not used to technology commonly requiered for broadcasting a wrestling show. One of his major drawbacks is his scarce knowledge of the english language.
Being ripped of his original time and environment Heinrich is a little frustrated that of his heroic deeds almost nothing is known nowadays. Note that he was a hero in his time, with the brightest future still ahead of him.

His moral is that there is nothing a prussian officer can't do.