Victor Klemper | |
Continuity: | The X-Files |
Notability: | Minor character |
Type: | Nazi |
Occupation: | Scientist |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Human |
Location: | Germany |
Associations: | Nazi party The Syndicate |
Status: | Deceased |
Died: | 1995 |
First: | "Paper Clip" |
Actor: | Walter Gotell |
Victor Klemper is a fictional scientist and a minor character featured on the FOX Network television series The X-Files. Played by actor Walter Gotell, he appeared in the second episode of season three, "Paper Clip".
Biography[]
Victor Klemper was a Nazi scientist based out of Germany in the 1940s. After World War II, he was one of several such individuals selected as part of Operation Paperclip, which immigrated key German scientists into the United States for the benefit of using exploiting their scientific acumen.
Although Operation Paperclip was shut down in the 1950s, Victor Klemper continued his work in the study of eugenics. By the 1970s, he became an associate of the Syndicate, and worked towards developing human/alien cross hybridization processes, which were introduced into unaware human test subjects by way of smallpox vaccinations.
In 1995, F.B.I. agents Fox Mulder found a photograph of his father, William Mulder, from 1973. Victor Klemper was also in the photo. Mulder consulted with his associates, the Lone Gunmen, and learned about Victor's background. Mulder and his partner, Dana Scully, visited Klemper, who had long since retired and was now enjoying life working in his greenhouse. Mulder showed Klemper the photograph, but Victor remained vague about it, saying only that the picture had been taken at an abandoned mine shaft in West Virginia. Mulder and Scully left to investigate this lead.
When word reached the Syndicate that Victor Klemper had assisted the F.B.I. - even meagerly, they sent one of their agents to assassinate him. When Mulder and Scully returned, they found the mysterious "Well-Manicured Man" in the greenhouse, who told them that Klemper suffered from a sudden "heart attack".