Heinz Kruger

"Cut off one head, two more shall take its place. Hail HYDRA!"

- Heinz Kruger to Captain America

Heinz Kruger  was one of HYDRA's top assassins. He committed suicide to avoid interrogation after his capture by Steve Rogers.

Biography
"Who the Hell are you?" "The first of many."

- Captain America and Heinz Kruger

Heinz Kruger was a HYDRA agent under the command of Johann Schmidt, better known as the Red Skull. When Schmidt heard that Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Program was creating another subject in America, he dispatched Kruger to assassinate the old scientist and eradicate any evidence of Abraham's work. He was present during the culmination of Project Rebirth on June 22, 1943, where he was presented as Fred Clemson, a U.S. State Department official invited to watch the results. Kruger uses a concealed bomb to destroy the research, before unloading a round of his lugger pistol into Erskine, killing him.

However, Kruger was incapable of stopping Steve Rogers from being transformed into a super soldier, and was forced to retreat from the man who would become Captain America. On his way out, he hijacked two taxis, the first of which was stopped when Peggy Carter shot through the windshield and killed the driver, the second of which was pursued on foot by Rogers. Eventually Steve forced Heinz into a footrace, which Kruger took advantage of by kidnapping a small child from the street, taking him into the docks with the gun to his head. When Rogers pursued, Heinz attempted to shoot him, but discovered he was out of ammo in his clip, causing him to throw the child into the water below as a distraction. When Rogers checked on the kid, he said he was okay because he could swim, and encouraged him to get Kruger.

With his mission mostly complete, Kruger boarded an advanced the Fieser Dorsch. It was already submerged and swimming back to Germany, when Steve Rogers appeared outside the cockpit, shattered it and ripped Heinz out, dragging him back out of the water and throwing him onto the docks above. When Rogers attempted to interrogate him, Heinz claimed that he was simply the first of many, and that when you cut of one head, two more grow in its place. Before Rogers could ask more detailed questions, Kruger bit down on a concealed Cyanide Pill in his mouth, killing himself for his cause, saying "Hail HYDRA!".

Weapons
Kruer was armed with the standard pistol used by members of the armed forces of Nazi Germany.

Relationships

 * HYDRA - Allies
 * Red Skull - Leader
 * Steve Rogers - Enemy
 * Strategic Scientific Reserve - Enemies
 * Abraham Erskine † - Victim
 * Peggy Carter

Trivia

 * In the comics, Kruger is a Gestapo agent working for the Nazi party instead of an agent of HYDRA.