Anton Ferge is a Russian man who is a resident at the Berghof. When first meets Ferge, Ferge is recovering from a pneumothorax that almost killed him. Ferge is one the patients Hans and visit during Hans’s phase of visiting the Berghof’s “poor sick” in an effort to dignify their suffering. The cousins appreciate Ferge’s frank, unaffected manner, and Hans refers to him as the “simple martyr.” Ferge recovers, though, and takes over ’s spot at the cousins’ dining table after Settembrini moves out of the sanatorium. He and are the Berghof residents with whom Hans is friendliest after Joachim’s death.