Real
Name: Ingrid Volitz INGRID VOLITZ
Real
Name: Ingrid Volitz
Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-29171) human (New Prussian citizen)
Occupation: School teacher;
formerly general in the New Prussian military
Group Membership: Formerly New Prussian military
Affiliations: Seltz;
formerly Anton Friedman
Enemies: Brian Fellowes, Emily Bougue
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Frau Schultz
Base of Operations: Bitte, New Prussia;
formerly Strasbourg, New Prussia
First
Appearance: 67 Seconds (1992)
Powers/Abilities: Volitz was a brilliant, and utterly ruthless, strategist, and able to think on her feet in a crisis. She was a capable shot, and skilled in disguise.
Height: 5'8" (by estimation)
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: (Volitz) Brown; (Schultz) gray (either dyed or wig)
History:
(67 Seconds (fb) - BTS) - On
Earth-29171 the charismatic leader Anton Friedman had been a young
corporal during World War III but rose to power in the turmoil that
embraced Europe following that, until 52 years after that last conflict
he ruled New Prussia, an empire that stretched from the Bering Straits
to the borders of France, reigning over most of Europe bar Britain,
Spain, Portugal and France, the last hanging on to independence despite
being starved by their expansionist neighbor, while in Asia the empire
was seeking to conquer Afghanistan too. Most of the regions had joined
the empire willingly though, readily embracing Friedman's vision of
hope, plenty and golden tomorrows.
Ingrid Volitz was New Prussia's youngest and
most decorated general, a brilliant if erratic strategist, as well as
being both brave and beautiful, and as a result she was a well known
public figure.
(67 Seconds#
(fb)) - Two English reporters, writer Emily Bougue and her cameraman
Brian Fellowes, caught a glimpse of Volitz when they were allowed a rare
chance to interview Friedman in his headquarters in New Prussia's
capital, Strasbourg.
(67 Seconds (fb) -
BTS) - Shortly after this New Prussia attacked America by bombing
Boston. Though nuclear weapons had been banned and dismantled following
an accord a decade earlier, within a week conventional weapons had
leveled huge areas of both Europe and America. Only a few places in the
world managed to stay neutral - Britain, Portugal and Madagascar among
them. But most of the world was plunged into bloody conflict. However,
as in prior conflicts, Portugal offered refuge to American pilots who
had been shot down and were attempting to return home. Volitz,
apparently without orders from those above her, decided to make an
example of Portugal for the help they were affording an enemy, so she
used an antique atom bomb she somehow procured and laid waste to Lisbon.
Soon after, with both sides sensing a stalemate, a
wary cease-fire between the two powers ended the war. In mutual acts of
contrition, both New Prussia and America were eager to exchange war
criminals for trial. Volitz was now an embarrassment to Friedman, and
hastily went into hiding, assuming the identity of the elderly school
teacher Frau Schultz in the tiny Alpine seaside hamlet of Bitte. Smart
enough to know she might one day be exposed, she secured an informant,
Seltz, in the local constabulary to warn her should the authorities
catch on to her. The failure to capture and try her was one of the
things delaying any lasting peace.
(67
Seconds# (fb)) - Shortly after the war ended Bitte hosted a
medical conference, which Bougue and Fellowes were sent to report on.
While sitting outside at a cafe Bougue spotted "Schultz" directing
some of her (elementary school age) pupils as they returned to school
after an outing, and after a few moments searching her memory she
recognized her despite the disguise. Bougue phoned the local police to
alert them, but Seltz phoned to warn her. Volitz immediately ordered
her class onto the school's bus and drove them up the small mountain
beside the town to a weather station's airship hanger located at the
top. At gunpoint she commandeered an airship and forced the children
to board, shooting dead a guard who tried to stop her. Threatening to
kill all of the terrified children if they disobeyed her, she took
off, but after years as a war reporter Bougue hadn't waited for the
police and had arrived at the school in time to see Volitz depart and
followed the school bus on a motorbike, arriving at the hanger in time
to grab the still dangling boarding ladder. While Volitz was on the
upper floor of the airship gondola attempting to steer it out to sea,
Bougue found the children on the lower floor, and she began getting
the children to climb down while they were still low enough to do so.
With the police having reached the hanger moments behind Bougue,
Volitz triggered a bomb she had left behind in the hanger, unaware
that others below, seeing the children dropping from the ship, were
now using blankets to catch the children as the airship gradually got
higher. Soon all the hostages had escaped, leaving only Volitz and
Bougue on board. The reporter then began sabotaging the engines,
smashing whatever she could with a mallet. Volitz realized the engine
had stopped and the ship was listing, so she headed down to check what
had gone wrong, discovering the children had gone and Bougue standing
besides the wrecked machinery in the engine room. Before Volitz could
shoot the reporter Bougue punched her and overpowered her, declaring
that she'd make a great story even as the airship lost height, barely
clearing the roofs of the buildings in the town.
Comments: Created by James Robinson and Steve Yoewell.
It's never stated exactly when 67 Seconds
takes place. The narrator mentions that World War III took place over 50
years ago, calls the atom bomb Volitz used an "antique," and mentions
that Britain no longer has a National Health Service, all of which
suggests it should be no earlier than the late 20th century, assuming
the alternate reality is set in had the same history up to World War II
at least. But of course there's no guarantee that is the case, and the
technology overall feels very old fashioned - rotary phones, airships,
and primitive looking computers (or maybe only basic word processors)
that look like old-style typewriters with a small portable
box-television attached. Clearly this isn't just set in a possible
future, but in a world where history diverged down a different path some
time ago.
Note that I have used America rather than the
United States of America in the history above, since at no point is that
latter name mentioned in the story. It's possible the narrator was just
using the colloquial name, but it's also very feasible that in this
reality America literally means all of North America, or perhaps even
that both North and South America were a single immense country; after
all, the confirmed extent of New Prussia embraced the vast majority of
Europe and a large percentage of Asia.
This profile was completed on 09/06/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent 67 Seconds.
Profile by Loki.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Ingrid Volitz has no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
67 Seconds,
p18, pan5 (main image)
67 Seconds,
p54, pan5 (headshot photo)
67 Seconds, p53, pan5
(in aged disguise)
67 Seconds, p57, pan2 (headshot, removing
disguise)
Appearances:
67 Seconds (1992) - James
Robinson (writer), Steve Yoewell (art), Marc McLaurin (editor)
First Posted: 09/11/2026
Last updated: 09/06/2026
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