Hauke

CHARACTER
Hauke
Gender	Male
Death	August 18, 1969 Ear of Dionysius, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
Profession(s)	Henchman
Allegiance(s)	Jürgen Voller Nazis

Hauke was a large and imposing Neo-Nazi enforcer for the former Third Reich scientist turned NASA official Jürgen Voller in 1969. He also had ties to the CIA.

Biography

Looking for the Antikythera

Along with Klaber, neo-Nazi Hauke was involved with Doctor Jürgen Voller's August 1969 pursuit of Archimedes' Dial, joining Klaber to track down American archaeologist Indiana Jones in New York City. While looking for the retired professor at Hunter College on August 13, Hauke causally shot Mandy to remove a witness to their actions. During the Apollo 11 ticker tape parade held in Manhattan, Hauke hijacked one of the convertibles to chase down the professor with an unwilling female passenger being brought along for the ride.

Four days later, Hauke arrived in Tangier, Morocco accompanying Voller and the rest of his men to Hotel L'Atlantique to claim the Antikythera from Helena Shaw but, following a brawl amongst its patrons, Aziz Rahim and his men intervened. A chase ensued where Hauke tried to gun Jones down with a machine gun before the archaeologist and companions Shaw and Teddy Kumar got away while Voller's group was detained. On board a CIA helicopter, the neo-Nazis killed Mason and her men, and took control of the aircraft.

Hauke and his associates boarded La Sirena the following day, severing the breathing cord of one of Renaldo's sailors, but Jones and his friends managed to escape to Sicily, where the Tomb of Archimedes was located. While exploring the streets, Teddy found out that the neo-Nazis had followed them but Hauke took him hostage. At the Ear of Dionysius, Hauke and Teddy were handcuffed to prevent the child from running away but when walking across an unstable bridge, Teddy tried to pickpocket the key and Hauke's large mass and sudden movement to stop the boy sent them both into the rapid waters. Carried towards a broken grate, Teddy got loose and was small enough to escape through a gap in the metal, cuffing Hauke to it in the process and then left the man to drown.

Legacy

Despite Hauke's murder of Mandy and the others his fellows pinned on Indiana Jones, Jones would ultimately be able to walk freely in his twilight years by the 1990s.

Behind the scenes

Hauke was played by Olivier Richters.

Hauke was portrayed by Olivier Richters in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The character's name was revealed by the film's production notes uploaded and released by The Walt Disney Company on May 31, 2023. Richters' large fighting character follows in the Indiana Jones tradition of the late Pat Roach's characters from the first three films and Igor Jijikine's character from the fourth film.

Richters joined the Dial of Destiny production during eight months of filming in Morocco, Italy, London and Scotland, making it the actor's largest film role at the time. During filming, Richters had the chance to perform scenes along with Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones), Mads Mikkelsen (Jürgen Voller) and Boyd Holbrook (Klaber), appreciating acting tips he had received from the latter two and was impressed at how the then septuagenarian Ford displayed more stamina than he.

Richters noted in a 2022 interview with Men's Health magazine that his role in the movie was so secret the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website didn't know his character's name, remarking that if he had said something about his role, Lucasfilm Ltd. would get angry with him.

Appearances

• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (First appearance)

Sources

•  Harrison Ford Says Goodbye to the Man With the Hat in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org) (Pictured only)
•  Phoebe Waller-Bridge Shares Harrison Ford’s Advice For Taking a Punch On Screen on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org) (Pictured only)