Richard Wagenbauer

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Richard Wagenbauer (born June 30, 1896 in Germersheim , † October 20, 1942 in Coburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .

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After attending elementary school, a secondary school and the Bavarian Cadet School , Richard Wagenbauer joined the 1st Bavarian Foot Artillery Regiment as a flag junior in August 1914. With this and with the 2nd Bavarian Foot Artillery Regiment he took part in the First World War until 1918 . In 1919 Wagenbauer was a member of the Epp Freikorps and the Hierl Detachment. In 1921 he retired from the army with the rank of first lieutenant .

Wagenbauer became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 52,919) and SS in October 1930 . From the SS he switched to the SA at the beginning of October 1932, where he worked full-time and in November 1937 achieved the rank of group leader. After the " seizure of power " he was briefly police chief in Karlsruhe from 1933 to 1934 .

After the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at his own request , and was most recently employed as a department commander in the major.

On February 6, 1942, Wagenbauer joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , to which he was a member until his death as a representative of constituency 26 (Franconia). Heinrich Horlbeck continued his mandate until the end of the war .

Wagenbauer was SA leader of the SA group Bayernwald in Bayreuth and was supposed to take over the SA group Hochland in Munich in October 1942. He died on October 20, 1942 at 5:50 a.m. in the Hotel Festungshof in Coburg after falling from a window. In Bayreuth he was buried in the city cemetery.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

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  1. ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 173
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SURNAME Wagenbauer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Germersheim
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1942
Place of death Coburg