  Very high energy (VHE; >100 GeV) observations of a sample of selected active
galactic nuclei (AGN) were performed between January 2005 and April 2007 with
the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS), an array of imaging
atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes. Significant detections are reported elsewhere
for many of these objects. Here, integral flux upper limits for twelve
candidate very high energy (VHE; >100 GeV) gamma-ray emitters are presented. In
addition, results from HESS observations of four known VHE-bright AGN are given
although no significant signal is measured. For three of these AGN (1ES
1101-232, 1ES 1218+304, and Mkn 501) simultaneous data were taken with the
Suzaku X-ray satellite.
