Rudolf Wagner (historian)

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Rudolf Wagner (born July 18, 1911 in Duliby near Stryj in Galicia , † April 27, 2004 ) was a German historian , expellee functionary and Bavarian state politician .

Life

Wagner with his parents moved to the First World War in the Bukovina , by post-1918 Romania annexed was. In 1933 he made his baccalaureate in Gurahumora . After he had completed his military service in the Romanian army , he was sent by the German ethnic group leadership of the Bukowina Germans in 1934 to study at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he also became a member of the NS student union . In 1930 he became active in the Arminia Czernowitz fraternity . He was a member of the NSDAP .

Wagner received his doctorate in 1938 as Dr. phil. In 1938 he accepted a position at the Wannsee Institute , an office of the Reich Main Security Office , in Berlin and became a member of the SS . He was a member of the resettlement commission that settled the Bukowina Germans in western Poland in 1940 . From December 1940 to March 1941 he was subordinate to the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Paris as an Unterscharfuhrer and completed the 14th SS leadership course in April 1941. From May to November 1941 he was assigned to the BdS in Belgrade , where he had the task of "securing" emigrants , saboteurs, terrorists , communists and Jews after the military defeat of Yugoslavia . After being seriously injured in the war, he returned to the Reich Security Main Office in 1944.

Wagner was u. a. together with the former SS-Sturmbannführer Erik von Witzleben and Walter von Keudell , signatories of the Charter of German Expellees 1950 . After the war he published the magazine Der Buchenlanddeutsche (later: Südostbote ). On October 9, 1949, Wagner became the spokesman for the Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutsche and moved into the Presidium of the Association of Expellees (BdV) . After the war he was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament for the BHE , where he was a member of parliament from 1954 to 1958. He taught at the Munich University of Political Sciences and was an honorary doctorate from the National University of Chernivtsi . Wagner, the "gray eminence of the Bukovinians", managed to hide his involvement in the Nazi era.

On September 2, 2000, together with Herbert Hupka , Friedrich Walter and Rudolf Wollner, he was awarded the plaque of honor of the Association of Expellees . At the commemoration of the BdV on the following day on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the charter of the expellees, the chairwoman Erika Steinbach described Wagner as the "man of the first hour" and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder praised him as the last living signer of the charter.

In 1950 he became a member of the Arminia Munich fraternity . He later received the ribbon of honor from the Ukrainian Zaporoshe , which was reactivated in 1990 as the only student union in Chernivtsi to date .

Works

  • Alma Mater Francisco Josephina. The German-speaking nationality university in Chernivtsi. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of its opening in 1875 . Munich 1979.
  • Bukovina and its Germans . Vienna 1979.
  • German cultural life in the Bukowina , Eckartschriften Heft 77, 1981, pp. 69–75.
  • Traces of German immigration to Bukowina 200 years ago: Border guards and nobility in Austrian times . Munich 1983.
  • The revolutionary years 1848/49 in the Kingdom of Galicia-Lodomeria (including Bucovina). Documents from Austrian times . Munich 1983.
  • Parliamentarism and national balance in the former Austrian Bukovina . Munich 1984.
  • with Paula Tiefenthaler and Adolf Armbruster: From the coat of arms of the Moldau to the double-headed eagle. Selected contributions to the history of Bukovina . Augsburg 1991.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 192-195.
  • Wagner, Rudolf , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 340-342.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Politics instead of revenge: Rudolf Wagner and the Charter of the Expellees , Die Welt
  2. ↑ a b c d Erich later : Gez. NSDAP, SA and SS . In: Konkret , issue 04/2004.
  3. ↑ a b c Peter Carstens: Entangled to the point of harmlessness , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 20, 2010
  4. ↑ Dissertation: The Ukrainian Reformation Movement in Eastern Galicia . Your national, intellectual and philosophical foundations .
  5. ↑ a b c “ Buchenland-German with a dark past ”, Münchner Merkur , December 27, 2006
  6. ↑ Luzian Geier: “ Beech countries, as it is in many books ”, obituary
  7. ↑ Erika Steinbach: Ten years president of the Federation of Displaced Persons ( Memento from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Bund der Vertrieben, Bonn 2008 page 14 (40 pages, PDF file; 1.0 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian; Expellees official and politician (BHE), Member of the State Parliament in Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Duliby near Stryj , Bukovina
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2004