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Ernst Rupp

German General and Knight's Cross recipient (1892-1943)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ680622 ↗
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Ernst Johann Rupp (13 January 1892 – 30 May 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 97th Jäger Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Rupp was killed on 30 May 1943, near Krymsk, Soviet Union during the operations at the Kuban bridgehead.

Awards and decorations

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 7 March 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of 97.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1943—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1892-01-13. For this dossier, Ernst, Rupp and German is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ernst Rupp” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.