Rudolf von Oberstein (鲁道夫•冯•奥贝斯坦) was the Minister of Industry and Information Technology (工业与信息部长,[1][2] also called 科技部部长 for Minister of Science and Technology)[3] as well as Vice-President of the State Council of Germany (国务委员副主席[2][Note 1] or 国务委员会第一副主席[3]), Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers (部长会议第一副主席), member of the National Defense Council (国防委员会委员), Deputy Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (统一社会党副书记),[3][Note 2] eldest son of the seventh generation of the Oberstein family and the father of Lunasia[1][2] and Ballard von Oberstein. Rudolf is also the secret leader of 90WISH[1] and one of the leaders of Paradeus in 2064.[2]
In the 2040s, Rudolf was the director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and his eldest daughter often visited the lab of Lycoris and Persicaria.[4] However, the Oberstein family was forced into hiding after Rudolf's political standing fell through due to his connection to Relic Technology,[5] and Lunasia died from illness while the family was in hiding some time after the end of World War Three.[6][5] Like his son, the untimely death of his daughter a few years prior still weighs heavily on Rudolf's mind.[7]
↑In part 6 of the English translation of Isolation Forest, he's called “Vice-Chairman of the Socialist Unity Party”, but this is a mistranslation of 国务委员会副主席 (Vice-President of the State Council).
↑In Parts 3 and 18 of Isolation Forest, Rudolf is called “SED Chairman” (SED主席) and “Chairman of the Socialist Unity Party” (统一社会党党主席), but this role is instead given to Friedrich Groß in the Bee Sting entry of the party. In Convolutional Kernel, Rudolf's role was changed to Deputy Secretary and Groß' to General Secretary.