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E.H. Kretzschmar is a minor character featured in Red Dead Redemption.

History[]

Background[]

E.H. Kretzschmar is a "merchant tailor" (according to his sign) and owns a shop located near the docks in Blackwater.

Events of Red Dead Redemption[]

The player can buy a scrap from his store needed to complete the U.S. Army Uniform. If attacked, he will sometimes draw a gun and fire at the player in self-defense.

Character[]

Personality[]

Kretzschmar is usually well-dressed and displays a cordial and relaxed attitude. He tends to happily greet any customers who enter his shop.

However, if the player has repeatedly engaged in public acts of crime and anarchy, Kretzschmar will adopt a colder attitude towards his customer, addressing them with repressed disdain and hurrying them to make a decision when browsing the catalog.

Appearance[]

He has a clean-shaven face with only a short goatee. He also wears a beige opulent vest with a white stand-collar overshirt and a light beige fedora, and wears a dirty-yellow tie.

Trivia[]

  • In Red Dead Redemption, the only thing Kretzschmar has for sale is the final scrap for the U.S. Army Uniform, making his shop virtually useless for the vast majority of the game except as a place to sell skins and other items from the player's inventory. He also sells a scrap for the PS3-exclusive Walton's Gang Outfit, but that is also available at the tailor's shop in Thieves' Landing.
  • He has a strange quirk, possibly a glitch. When the player attacks him and pull a gun out, he will start shooting with his own gun, causing him to be shot by the law. However, it takes about 50 shots for him to die. He shares this glitch with Herbert Moon, Jeb Murphy, and Alejandro Duarte.
  • During Undead Nightmare, his shop is occupied temporarily by Mordecai Robbard's niece and he is nowhere to be found, implying he either fled Blackwater or succumbed to the Undead.
    • An undead model of him appears in an Undead Nightmare promotional screenshot in Blackwater. Despite this, his undead model does not appear in the final game.
  • His last name is German, suggesting he is German or of Germanic descent.
  • Kretzschmar's Red Dead Redemption model shares the same character head with Floyd Brogles, Archie Nevers, Lewis Pickering, Lewis Shelton, Vernon Cherry, Felix Middleton, Randall Forrester, Alvin McCready, and Ernest Seahorn.
  • His shop in Red Dead Redemption 2 has the original icon for tailors from Red Dead Redemption painted on the building as an Easter Egg.

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