Josef Wagner (politician, 1896)
Josef Wagner (born April 13, 1896 in Holztraubach ; † December 6, 1946 in Focşani ) was a Bavarian politician of the KPD and an anti-fascist resistance fighter .
Life
After graduating from elementary school, Josef Wagner learned to be a mechanical engineer . He then worked in the Augsburg plant of the Augsburg-Nuremberg machine factory . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . In 1919 he became a member of the USPD , with whose majority faction he participated in the unification of the USPD with the KPD to form the VKPD .
In January 1924 he was arrested and sentenced by the Reichsgericht for his activities in October 1923, and in 1925 he was released due to the Hindenburg amnesty . He then worked again as a mechanical engineer in Augsburg , where he was elected to the works council.
In 1932 he was elected a member of the Bavarian State Parliament. He was also a member of the city council in Augsburg.
From February 1933 he worked "illegally" for the KPD and resisted National Socialism . On April 20, 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo . The Higher Regional Court in Munich he was two years and three months prison convicted. After imprisonment in prison, he was taken into “ protective custody ” in 1935 and deported to the Dachau concentration camp and from there in 1939 to the Flossenbürg concentration camp . He spent the period from 1940 to 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp.
In 1944 he was released and drafted into the Dirlewanger SS special unit . This was followed by frontline missions in Poland and Romania. On December 15, 1944, he managed to escape to the Red Army , where he was able to continue his anti-fascist educational work. He became head of the anti-fascist club in a prisoner-of-war camp in a Carpathian village near Focşani, where he died as a result of a severe TB disease .
literature
- Wagner, Josef . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Josef Wagner in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter and KPD functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holztraubach |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1946 |
| Place of death | Focșani , Romania |