Baron Von Blitzschlag

Baron Von Blitzschlag
Baron Werner Von Blitzschlag. Art by Stefano Caselli.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Avengers: The Initiative # 1 (April 2007)
Created by	Dan Slott (writer) Stefano Caselli (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Werner Von Blitzschlag
Team affiliations	Avengers: The Initiative Nazi Party Commission on Superhuman Activities
Abilities	Genius level intellect and an ability to generate and control electricity

Baron Werner Von Blitzschlag is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Dan Slott and artist Stefano Caselli, the Baron's last name is German for "Lightning-Strike."

Character creator Dan Slott describes Baron Von Blitzschlag as

A Nazi supervillain that you've never seen. He's someone who had off panel run-ins with guys like the Whizzer, Miss America, and Thin Man. But no one really remembers him. The way he works in this book is that he's one of the guys in Hank Pym's lab in the Initiative. You read stuff like 'Civil War' and you see that they're making heroes like the new Champions. And that's one of the places he comes in. The Baron is a Nazi geneticist who is helping out the Initiative in the same way Wernher von Braun was helping out the NASA space program. As much as we hate the Nazis and they were awful human beings, we used guys who worked on the V-2 rockets to help us put men on the moon and the Russians were using them too. There's something like that going on in the Initiative but I can't say any more about it.

Originally, Blitzschlag's role was going to be filled by the pre-existing character Arnim Zola, but this was changed due to Ed Brubaker's plans for the character in Captain America.