pilot and first recipient of the Air Force Cross Rudolf von Bünau, German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and one of the chief commanders of Vienna Offensive Rudolf von Brudermann, general of Austria-Hungary during the First World War who led the Austro-Hungarian 3rd army during the Battle of Galicia Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany Rudolf Berthold (1891–1920), German World War I air ace Rudolph Douglas Raiford, American World War II combat officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German army officer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943, leader of the unit, soldiers of which discovered the mass graves of the Soviet-perpetrated Katyn massacre Rudolf Schmundt, German officer in the Wehrmacht and adjutant to Adolf Hitler during World War II, later tried to unsuccessfully assassinate Hitler Rudolf Viest, Slovak military leader, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak army during the Slovak National Uprising Rudolf Frank, German Luftwaffe military aviator and night fighter ace during World War II Rudolf von Eschwege, German World War I flying ace who was the German Empire's only fighter pilot operating on the Macedonian Front Rudolf Veiel, German Panzer general during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Greece Rudolf Sieckenius, German Generalmajor during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Berlin Rudolf von Slatin, Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in Sudan Rudolf Jordan, Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt Hans-Rudolf Rösing, German U-boat commander in World War II Rudolph Hiemstra, South African Air Force commander Rudolf Schmidt, general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II Rodolfo P. Hernández, United States Army soldier Rudolf Perešin, Croatian fighter pilot serving in the Yugoslav Air Force (JRZ) during Croatian War of Independence Rudolf Toussaint, German army officer, one of the principal commanders of Prague uprising Rudolf Meister, German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II Rudolf Maister (1874–1934) Slovene military officer, poet and political activist, one of the leading perpetrators of Marburg's Bloody Sunday, one of the principal commanders of Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia Nazis Rudolf Diels, German Nazi SS official and Director of German secret police Gestapo from 1933 to 1934 Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), German Nazi SS officer and leader of the Jewish skull collection project Rudolf Hess (1894–1987), Deputy Führer in Nazi Germany, one of the leaders of Beer