Rudolf Wagner (SS member)
Rudolf Wagner (spelling also Rudolph Wagner ; born June 29, 1913 in Schönwald; † March 15, 1943 killed on the Eastern Front ) was German SS-Hauptsturmführer as well as head of the site administration in the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps .
Life
Rudolf Wagner, a trained businessman, was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 812.393) from 1931 and of the SS (membership number 104.377) from the beginning of November 1932 . From March 1934, Wagner served in the guard company of the Dachau concentration camp and then completed a leadership course at the SS administration school in Dachau . After that, Wagner was administrative leader in the Dachau concentration camp until November 10, 1939. Then Wagner was deployed in the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf and took part in combat operations in Holland and Norway . From October 1, 1940 to July 15, 1942, Wagner was the head of the site administration at Auschwitz. Afterwards Wagner was again a member of an SS division and died in mid-March 1943 in fighting on the Eastern Front.
literature
- Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940–1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. From the Polish by Jochen August . Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim 1999, ISBN 83-85047-76-X (5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp; II. The prisoners - living conditions, work and death; III. Extermination; IV. Resistance; V. . Epilogue).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt / M. 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 , p. 422.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagner, Rudolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Hauptsturmführer and administration leader in concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1943 |