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Standartenführer Hans Landa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds. He is portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz received widespread acclaim and won numerous accolades.

Standartenführer (SS Colonel) Hans Landa is an Austrian SS officer assigned to the Sicherheitsdienst. He is nicknamed "the Jew Hunter" for his uncanny ability to locate Jews hiding throughout Occupied France. Although he is not blond like Reinhard Heydrich he has the same rank as Joachim Peiper the LSSAH Nazi Officer and looked similar to Peiper. It is unknown how old Hans Landa is in the film. It is also unknown if he was born in around the same time as Reinhard Heydrich in 1904. It is presumed he was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary in 1904 while Heydrich was born in Halle, Germany.

Egotistical and ambitious, Landa takes a great deal of pride in his fearsome reputation, lauding his nickname "The Jew Hunter" and using it to compare himself to his boss Reinhard Heydrich, whom he describes as disliking the nickname the people of Prague bestowed upon him (“The Hangman”). When the tide of the war turns against the Nazis, he scoffs at it, alluding that his job is to find and capture people and the fact that they are Jews is of no consequence to him.

Besides speaking German, he is also fluent in at least French, English, and Italian.

Hans Landa has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.