Siegfried Wagner (officer)

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Siegfried Wagner (born February 16, 1881 in Graudenz ; † July 26, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a career officer and resistance fighter from July 20, 1944 .

Life

Wagner was Federal Chancellor (= Secretary General) of the Stahlhelm and a participant in the Harzburg Front , but later in opposition to Adolf Hitler's war policy . As a colonel, he was head of the troop department in the Wehrmacht High Command during World War II . In this function he supported the overturning plans and was supposed to serve as a liaison officer to Military District XI (Hanover) .

After the failure of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Wagner tried two days later to avoid being arrested by the GeStaPo by falling out of the window of his officers' apartment in Potsdam at Kurfürstenstrasse 19 . Four days later and after he had been questioned incessantly, regardless of his critical condition, he died as a result of the fall in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

On August 3, 1944, his widow Carla-Luise Wagner, b. Kuhns, sent his personal belongings: a wristwatch, a ring, the Iron Cross First Class and the Iron Cross with Ribbon and Swords. Her daughter was married to a Senarclens-Grancy who fell a few weeks before the end of the war in the Lüneburg Heath . Through them, Siegfried Wagner is the grandfather of the photographer Christine de Grancy (* 1942).

Siegfried Wagner's body was buried in the New Cemetery in Potsdam . Since 2014, a memorial plaque on his former home on Kurfürstenstrasse in Potsdam, which now houses medical practices, has been commemorating the resistance fighter.

See also

literature

  • Ekkehard Klausa : You came from the “Stahlhelm”. Early companions of Hitler who joined the resistance early on . In: ders .: The reawakened conscience. Conservatives in the resistance against National Socialism (= writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center, Series A: Analyzes and Representations, Volume 16). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86732-345-1 , pp. 261–277 (section on Wagner, pp. 269–273)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Berliner Tagesspiegel on July 20, 2007: Four days later the colonel was dead. (Retrieved on May 5, 2019.)
  2. ↑ Volker R. Berghahn : The steel helmet. Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918 - 1935.Droste , Düsseldorf 1966, p. 185
  3. ↑ Renata Schmidtkunz : I tell life stories with my photos - In conversation with the photographer Christine de Grancy , Ö1 , March 17, 2016, 9:00 p.m.
  4. ↑ Babette Stadie (ed.): The Power of Truth , 2008, p. 253.
  5. ↑ Christine de Crancy in conversation on March 18, 2016. ( Accessed May 5, 2019.)
  6. ^ Märkische Allgemeine on July 19, 2014: Kurfürstenstrasse commemorates resistance fighters. Memorial plaque for an opponent of Hitler. (Accessed May 5, 2019.)
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1944
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp