Leon Rupnik

Leon Rupnik
Leon Rupnik during World War II
Nickname(s)	Lev
Born	(1880-08-10)August 10, 1880 Lokve, Gorizia and Gradisca, Austria-Hungary
Died	September 4, 1946(1946-09-04) (aged 66) Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
Cause of death	Execution by firing squad
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary (1895–1918) Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1919–1941) Slovene Home Guard (1943–1945)
Years of service	1895–1941, 1942–1945
Rank	Divisional General
Unit	Slovene Home Guard
Battles/wars	First World War, Second World War
Relations	Vuk Rupnik

Leon Rupnik, also known as Lav Rupnik or Lev Rupnik (August 10, 1880 – September 4, 1946) was a Slovene general in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia who collaborated with the Fascist Italian and Nazi German occupation forces during World War II. Rupnik served as the President of the Provincial Government of the Nazi-occupied Province of Ljubljana from November 1943 to early May 1945. Between September 1944 and early May 1945, he also served as chief inspector of the Slovene Home Guard (Slovene: Domobranci), a collaborationist militia, although he did not have any military command until the last month of the war.^{[1]: 97, 295–96 [2]}