Robert Rupp

Rupert Rupp (4 July 1901 - 28 March 1972) from Düsseldorf

Chess composer

He was a technical employee in a machine factory who (according to his self-assessment in the 1954 Schach-Echo) would not have got bad marks as a pianist and was interested in many things, including philosophy and painting. In 1924 he joined a chess club, and four years later his first problem was published. Two books characterised his relationship with problem chess: Sam Loyd and his chess problems and The Indian Problem. In 1929 he took over the chess column of the Düsseldorfer Volkszeitung, and he described the following years as editor as his best chess time. It came to an end in 1933, when tanned young journeymen from the other faculty arrived and dismantled the printing presses. He himself belonged to the workers' chess movement, which was already doomed at the time for political reasons, but he soon managed to become a contributor to several chess columns. He was also involved in the Schwalbe from 1934 onwards, where he often commented on theoretical issues and also presented the two-move theme named after him. He was also intensively involved with the meeting point concept originally developed by Arthur Klinke and further developed by Ferdinand Metzenauer from Munich. This led to the "Munich idea", which Rupp and Metzenauer helped to define and name. 

Source: dieschwalbe.de