Rudolph (name)


Rudolph or Rudolf or Rodolphe is a male first name, and, less commonly, a surname. It is an ancient Germanic name deriving from two stems: Hrōþi, Hruod, Hróðr or Hrōð, meaning "fame", "glory" "honour", "renown", and olf meaning "wolf".

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  • Rudolf Diels, German Nazi SS official and Director of German secret police Gestapo from 1933 to 1934
  • Rudolf Brandt, German Nazi SS officer and leader of the Jewish skull collection project
  • Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer in Nazi Germany, one of the leaders of Beer Hall Putsch, best known for his solo flight to Scotland
  • Rudolf Höss, German Nazi first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Rudolf Jung, Austrian from Bohemia and Nazi theoretician, wrote the first theoretical book on Nazism, “National Socialism: Its Foundations, Development, and Goals,” in 1919
  • Rudolf Lange, Nazi German SS officer and one of the major perpetrators of the Holocaust, commander of Salaspils concentration camp, one of the leading perpetrators of Jelgava massacre and Rumbula massacre
  • Rudolf Spanner, Director of the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II who set up a process to produce soap made from human corpses
  • Rudolf Rahn, Nazi German politician and Plenipotentiary to the Italian Social Republic

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  • Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist

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