German Sergeant is a ficitional character who appeared in the Hogan's Heroes episode, The Scientist. He was played by Robert Champion. The German Sergeant is first seen in the episode standing behind the front desk at the Hauserhauf hotel, eating a banana, when the disguised Hogan (as as SS General von Himmelburger of the Führer's staff), and Newkirk, (as von Himmelburger's aide, Pootzie) enters the building. He then stand at attention, as do the other Germans in the room. He then hears the disguised Hogan comment to Newkirk that until he had entered the hotel, he had thought that they might still have had a chance to win the war. He then watched Hogan ring the front desk bell. Upon hearing the bell, he asked what the General wanted, whereupon he hears the disguised Hogan ask for Marie DuB