The Land That Time Forgot · Character

Baron von Schoenvorts

A German baron commanding the U-boat survivors, he wields his swagger-stick and his cruelty with equal relish until a pistol muzzle checks his temper.

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Also known as von Schoenvorts, Schoenvorts, Baron Friedrich von Schoenvorts, the Baron

First appearance: I

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German commander of the U-33; captured by the survivors.

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Von Schoenvorts leads the German contingent among the castaways, treating captured Britishers as beasts of burden and encouraging his men to beat them. His vanity is as brittle as his authority: a stray branch across the face provokes him to break a sailor's nose, and only Bowen Tyler's leveled pistol stops him from striking an officer. He embodies the peril of the expedition's internal divisions, a bully whose cowardice and malice threaten the fragile cooperation the survivors need to endure Caprona.

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Part I: The Land That Time Forgot
German commander of the U-33; captured by the survivors.
II
Captured German commander, former lover of Lys, placed in irons.
III
German commander; suspected of colluding with Lys and orchestrating sabotage.
V
Agrees to Tyler's truce terms and is given charge of his own men.
VI
Displays Prussian arrogance; strikes a sailor, is confronted by Tyler, and later discovers oil with Olson.
VII
Betrayed the group by refining oil, shelling the fort, and escaping in the U-33 with his German crew.
I
The German prisoner who, along with others, captured the U-33 and is presumed to have escaped back to Kiel with an Iron Cross.
V
Von Schoenvorts leads a party of Germans forcing English prisoners to carry oil. He is ambushed by Bradley and later knocked out with a pistol butt.

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