SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Richard WAGNER

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SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Richard WAGNER

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Post by Minotauros » 24 Jul 2008, 08:26

Hi!

I'm looking for a good biography of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Richard WAGNER.
I think he was deputy or Stabschef HSSPF Rhein-Westmark under SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Jürgen STROOP between 1943 and V 1945.

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Post by Andreas Schulz » 24 Jul 2008, 09:26

You can find a good bio in:
- Lilla, Joachim; Döring, Martin; Schulz, Andreas: Statisten in Uniform – Die Mitglieder des Reichstages 1933 - 1945. Ein biographisches Handbuch unter Einbeziehung der völkischen und nationalsozialistischen Reichstagsabgeordneten vor 1933. Veröffentlichung der Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004

A better bio will be in: Die Generale der Waffen-SS und der Polizei, volume 6.

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Post by Minotauros » 24 Jul 2008, 20:37

Thank you Andreas. But for the moment I do not have the books mentioned by you.
Can you at least tell me who was the Stabschef HSSPF Rhein-Westmark when STROOP was in charge?
In Kazimierz MOCZARSKI's book "Conversations with a Henchman", STROOP mentioned Dr. Wagner as his "deputy chief of staff" and qualified him as a "clever and brilliant man, a true National Socialist", while he despised his chief of staff (he didn't name him).
By the way, he also talked favourably about his adjudant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl KALESKE.

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Post by Minotauros » 06 Aug 2008, 12:39

SS-Oberführer Friedrich SCHLUMS was the Stabsführer HSSPF Rhein-Westmark when STROOP was in charge between 1943 and 28 III 1945.
So Dr. WAGNER was Stellvertreter HSSPF Rhein-Westmark.

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Post by Phil Nix » 29 Aug 2008, 13:18

Dr. Richard Wagner was Stabsführer SS Oa Main 20.01.45 - 5.045 in succession to Franz Fischer. He was also Landesbauernpräsident Hessen 1936 - 1945
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SS-Brigadeführer Franz Fischer

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Post by Minotauros » 01 Sep 2008, 15:04

Thanks Phil!

Any additional informations on Franz FISCHER?
Quite a common name in Germany...

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SS-Brigadeführer Franz Fischer

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Post by freddiefro » 01 Sep 2008, 16:05

Minotaurus, here's what I have for Fischer:

Fischer, Franz
SS-Brigadeführer
Born: 04.01.1896 in Nürnberg
Died: 26.07.1983 in Nürnberg (or Stein bei Nürnberg)
NSDAP Nr.: 112 226 (joined 01.02.1929)
SS Nr.: 2 874 (joined 01.1930)

Promotions:
SS-Mann: 21.07.1930; SS-Truppf: 15.12.1930; SS-Stuf: 05.10.1931 (mit Wirkung vom 30.09.1931; SS-Sturmhauptf: 24.08.1932; SS-Stubaf: 31.07.1933; SS-Ostubaf: 01.09.1933; SS-Staf: 01.04.1934; SS-Oberf: 13.09.1936; SS-Brif: 03.12.1942 (mit Wirkung vom 09.11.1942)

Career:
Führer 4.Sturm/3.SS-Standarte (Nürnberg): late-Sep. 1931 - mid-Aug. 1932
Führer I.Sturmbann/3.SS-Standarte (Nürnberg): mid-Aug. 1932 - 16. Nov. 1933
Führer 73.SS-Standarte "Mittelfranken" (Nürnberg, then Ansbach): 16. Nov. 1933 - 1. Apr. 1934
Führer 3.SS-Standarte (Nürnberg): 1. Apr. 1934 - 20. Sep. 1937
Stabsführer SS-Oberabschnitt "Elbe" (Dresden): 15. Jan. 1937 - 1. Oct. 1937
Insp., SS-Oberabschnitt "Mitte": 1. Oct. 1937 - 1. Sep. 1939
Stabsführer SS-Oberabschnitt "Main" (Nürnberg): 1. Sep. 1939 - 20. Jan. 1945

Decorations & Awards:
1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
Verwundetenzbzeichen, 1918 in Silber
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer: ca. 1934
Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit (Hungary): 03.1939
Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern: 1942
Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse ohne Schwerter: [09.11.1944]
Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern: 28.02.1945
Bayerisches Militarverdienstkreuz II. Klasse
Österreichische Silberne Tapferkeitsmedaille
Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Bronze: 30.01.1940
Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen in Gold
SA-Sportabzeichen in Bronze
Ehrendegen des Reichsführers-SS
Totenkopfring der SS
SS-Zivilabzeichen (Nr. 1 266)
Julleuchter der SS: 16.12.1935
Ehrenwinkel für alte Kämpfer

Sources: "The SS-Brigadeführer" by Michael D. Miller & Andreas Schulz and the "Axis Biographical Research" web-site.

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Post by Mikedc » 30 Oct 2011, 00:03

Hello Minotaurus,
On wikipedia you can find a secent bio to start with already about Dr. Richard Wagner.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner_%28NSDAP%29

Greetings, Mike

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 24 Aug 2016, 04:48

Hi, what is the promotion date of Wagner's Generalmajor der Polizei?

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Post by Dieter Zinke » 24 Aug 2016, 13:20

11.05.1944 Berechtigung zum Tragen der Schulterstücke eines Generalmajors der Polizei

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 24 Aug 2016, 14:20

Thank you Oberstab

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