__Nationality:__ East German
__Affiliation:__ Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
__Rank:__ Major General

Minister of East Germany's Ministry for State Security. Erich Schmidt displays himself as a charismatic person to persuade and ensure the public that the Stasi rule is just. However, his subordinates know Schmidt as a cold and paranoid individual who will not hesitate to persecute anyone he deems as more dangerous and useful if he feels his dictatorship is in question. 

The Minister came into power after the previous Minister mysteriously died. Since taking power, Schmidt used the deteriorating situation with the BETA and growing discontent among the populace to move the Stasi into a more militant role, putting the fear in the hearts of the DDR's citizens though more brutal and direct means. Schmidt runs the Stasi as his own personal army, and is trying to make the DDR as his own fiefdom.


The year is 1983. The Cold War is in full effect, and humanity is under attack. Strange aliens, given the name "BETA," have descended to Earth and have been destroying all life. Soldiers have been tasked with piloting large combat suits called Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF) to repel the alien invaders, but the front line is slowly being pushed back towards the surviving cities.
 
Schwarzesmarken follows the story of Theodor Eberbach and the other members of the 666th TSF Squadron Schwarzesmarken (Black Marks), a ruthless unit that values a mission's completion over human life. Stationed in East Germany on the Oder-Neisse line and led by war hero Captain Irisdina Bernhard, the unit specializes in counterassault attacks on laser-class BETA. But the 666th Squadron finds itself with more enemies than just the alien forces when optimistic rookie Katia Waldheim joins the squadron, drawing the attention of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi.

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Márcio Scharrenbroich Simão is a Brazilian actor, voice actor, speaker and presenter.

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A Mexican voice actor. He is known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Jake the Dog in *Adventure Time*, Spencer Shay in *ICarly* and  Dr. Eric Foreman in *Doctor House*.
He is the recurring dub voice of Jerry Trainor and Michael Fassbender.

Schwarzesmarken is another spinoff of the Muv-Luv series, set in Cold War Europe in 1983, eighteen years before the events of Muv-Luv Alternative. Like Total Eclipse, Schwarzesmarken is also a light novel.
 
High treason against the state. Theodor, a pilot with the East German military whose family bears a tainted past, is sent to the 666th Company. Known as the Schwarzesmarken, they’re a unit that focuses on destroying the enemy with even at the cost of letting their comrades die. He meets the cold and calculating commander Irisdina and the idealistic Katia, and begins to doubt the way he’s lived his life.

This is a prequel to Schwarzesmarken. Opening in the waning days of 1972, it recounts the tale of of the Bernhard siblings, Jürgen and Irisdina, and their friend, Beatrix Brehme as they cope with relationship issues, overbearing parents, and an alien invasion.
 
Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.