Which actor plays Werner Ziegler, the German engineer, in Better Call Saul?

Rainer Bock plays Werner Ziegler, the German engineer, in Better Call Saul.

Bock portrays Werner as the project manager hired to coordinate the secret construction of Gus Fring’s underground superlab. Werner arrives in Albuquerque with a German engineering crew and is initially presented as a disciplined professional trusted with a complex and highly confidential assignment.

His storyline becomes tragic when he grows homesick and secretly leaves the secure construction project to meet his wife. Mike Ehrmantraut tracks him down and returns him to Albuquerque, but Gus ultimately orders Mike to kill Werner because the escape has exposed the operation to risk.

Rainer Bock is a German actor with extensive film and television credits. He is sometimes confused with actors from other German-language productions or with Steven Bauer, who plays Don Eladio in the series. Bock’s role is specifically Werner Ziegler, the engineer whose project helps create the superlab.