Rudolf Rahn


Rudolf Rahn
German Plenipotentiary of Italy
In office
23 September 1943 – 25 April 1945
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born16 March 1900
Ulm, Württemberg, German Empire
Died7 January 1975(1975-01-07) (aged 74)
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyNSDAP

Rudolf Rahn (16 March 1900 – 7 January 1975) was a German diplomat who served the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. As a member of the Party, and as Plenipotentiary of the Italian Social Republic in the closing stages of the Second World War, he was arrested and held at Nuremberg as a potential war criminal, but he was released in 1949 and deemed to be denazified in Class V (exonerated).