Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert (February 2, 1905 – May 28, 1946) was an SS-TV Obersturmbannführer (paramilitary rank equivalent to lieutenant colonel) in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp; he was, along with others, responsible for the executions of captured British SOE agents Noor Inayat Khan, Madeleine Damerment, Eliane Plewman, and Yolande Beekman.

Starting on April 11, 1933, Ruppert, married and the father of a child, was one of the first guards at Dachau concentration camp.

Ruppert was a witness to Operation Harvest Festival at Majdanek in November 1943, the mass murder of 43,000 Jews.

[1] Ruppert was convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, and hanged at Landsberg Prison on May 28, 1946.

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