# Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler — Character guide

> Key figures in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler by Norbert Jacques.

- [Herr von Wenk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/herr_von_wenk.md): Wenk moves through the novel as its investigating conscience, a bachelor with no womanly influence in his life and a boyhood dream of justice that suddenly feels fulfilled by this pursuit. He plants himself as bait — a r
- [Dr. Mabuse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/dr_mabuse.md): Mabuse moves between consulting room and getaway car, dismissing a pleading woman at his garden gate with the cold maxim that the past is past and her part is to obey. His mind races through smuggling calculations and sh
- [Countess Told](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/countess_told.md): The Countess belongs to the world of titled Munich society, wife to Count Told and an object of Mabuse's obsessive attention. Confined and disoriented, she finds herself torn between horror at what has been done to her a
- [Hull](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/hull.md): Hull is the kind of well-placed young man who knows the addresses of secret gambling dens and can be trusted to procure them without awkward questions. Wenk leans on him to gather information through Cara, extracting a p
- [Count Told](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/count_told.md): Count Told moves in the same aristocratic Munich circles as his wife and Wenk, a man of graceful manners who treasures the quiet evening moments he shares with the Countess after nights out. At the Wendel mansion he find
- [Spoerri](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/spoerri.md): Spoerri handles the logistics of Mabuse's operations — transport, documents, safe passage across frontiers — and answers the telephone in Zürich with the calm of a man accustomed to emergencies. He is practical enough to
- [Cara Carozza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/cara_carozza.md): Cara moves through the gambling dens and back alleys as Mabuse's eyes and hands, a woman who knows the underworld well enough to be useful and loves her master well enough to be destroyed by it. When the State Attorney W
- [George Strümpfli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/george_strumpfli.md): George is the shadow at Mabuse's shoulder, driving the car, removing the gas-flask, delivering the knife-edged messages that keep the doctor's household in line. He is the one who tells Cara that the master's will is lik
- [Weltmann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/weltmann.md): Weltmann exists in the novel as a reputation before he exists as a person, a name that circulates among gamblers and criminals as a measure of what is possible in their world. He is the kind of figure whose arrival at a 
- [Karstens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/karstens.md): A minor character involved in the criminal underworld.
- [Poldringer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/poldringer.md): A minor character in the gambling milieu.
- [Balling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/balling.md): A minor character, possibly an alias used by Mabuse.
- [Dr. Schramm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/dr_schramm.md): A doctor, possibly a colleague or victim of Mabuse.
- [Pesch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/pesch.md): A minor character, likely a criminal associate.
- [Privy Councillor Wendel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/privy_councillor_wendel.md): A minor official or nobleman in the story.
- [Dr. Dringer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/dr_dringer.md): A minor doctor character.
- [Professor Grote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dr_mabuse_the_gambler_se/characters/professor_grote.md): A minor academic character.

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