Ernst Rückert

Anton Ernst Rückert (20 December 1886 – 3 September 1945) was a German stage and film actor.

Rückert began his theatre career in 1908 and has appeared on the stage in Bleicherode, Königsberg and Kiel, among others.

In the 1930s, Rückert became a character actor in film, and he only rarely received engagements in the theatre.

In 1940 he was drafted, between 1941 and 1942 he was engaged as an actor and director at the Berlin Tourneetheater Gastspielirektion IX.

Rückert hanged himself a few months after the end of the Second World War in his apartment in Berlin.