Leon Rupnik
AustriaHungary Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Rupnik was born in Lokve near Gorizia, a village in what was then the Austrian County of Gorizia and Gradisca and is now part of the City Municipality of Nova Gorica, southwestern Slovenia. A career soldier, from 1895 to 1899 he studied at the infantry cadet school in Trieste and graduated as a junior second lieutenant. His schooling continued in Vienna from 1905 to 1907. After World War I, he joined the Royal Yugoslav Army in May 1919 with the rank of active staff major. He thereafter climbed the ranks, becoming a lieutenantcolonel , colonel , brigadier general and lieutenant general . When the Wehrmacht invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia onApril 1941, Rupnik was Chief of Staff of 1st Army Group.
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