Viktor Landauer

While Viktor Landauer is not the main character in the novel, his life and experiences are what help to shape the outline of the entire story. Viktor Landauer is a rich and successful business man. His family owns Landauer Motors, a Czech and German automobile company. In his business he is cool, calculating, and smart. As the novel begins, Viktor has just married his sweetheart, Liesel. He seems to be a responsible man who is in love. He cannot wait to show his new wife the world and build her a new home for them to create a family for. Slowly the reader starts to notice that Viktor likes to think about things in a modern sense. He likes the idea of a minimalistic house. This is why, at first her goes along with Rainer von Abt's plans.

After Liesel becomes pregnant with their first child. Viktor...