Beatrix Brehme is a Major in the Armed Police Force, commanding the "Werwolf (Werewolf)" tactical armor battalion.
Born on November 23, she belongs to the Moscow faction within the military's tangled political landscape.
Her primary duties involve ruthless counter-espionage and hunting defectors along the East-West German border.
She is known for her aggressive demeanor and her absolute willingness to get her hands dirty, a trait that has earned her deep-seated loyalty from her subordinates.
She has known Irisdina Bernhard since their days together at the officers' academy.
While publicly feuding with the Berlin faction’s Heinz Axmann, she was actually in a covert partnership with him, secretly investigating the true identity of Schmidt.
Privately, Beatrix was a fervent believer in the ideals of Jürgen Bernhard.
She felt a profound conviction that she was the one destined to save the fatherland through his vision.
Her philosophy demanded total cooperation to oppose the BETA, even if it meant sacrificing East Germany, as she had already accepted that humanity could never achieve absolute unity.
To realize this grim worldview, she justified the Stasi’s comprehensive surveillance and control, an outlook that kept her fundamentally and irreconcilably at odds with Theodor Eberbach.
She met her end in combat against Theodor, but the circumstances differ between the original novel and the TV anime adaptation.
**Novel**
During battle, a suicide attack by Walther Krüger strips her of all armaments, forcing a tactical withdrawal to the Spreewald base with her remaining forces.
Seizing the moment when the rebel main force left Berlin to counter BETA units breaching the Oder-Neisse defense line, she rallies the remnants of the Werwolf battalion and rises again.
Her plan is to re-seal the Berlin Wall and crush the revolution's momentum by attacking civilians at Pariser Platz, but unexpected rebel reinforcements—attack helicopters and tank units—stall her advance.
This delay allows Theodor’s returning tactical armor unit to catch up. Determined to personally destroy the man who has grown into Irisdina’s avenger, she engages him in single combat.
She is defeated, and he kills her by driving a short blade straight through her control unit.
**TV Anime**
She initially dominates the fight against Theodor’s squadron, but her focus shifts after shooting down Sylvia Kschessinska.
Witnessing this, a furious Walther Krüger carries out a suicide charge, destroying her heavy artillery equipment.
She continues to fight using close-quarters armaments, but the sight of the people rising up against Stasi domination shatters her composure entirely.
In the end, Theodor defeats her in battle, spearing through her machine and killing her on the spot.
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