Background
Robert Wagner was born on 13 October 1895 in Lindach.
Robert Wagner was born on 13 October 1895 in Lindach.
He volunteered for military service and served in an infantry regiment during World War I, remaining an active Reichswehr officer until 1924. One of Hitler's earliest followers, Wagner participated in the Beer-Hall putsch, standing trial with Hitler in 1924.
Imprisoned six times for political rowdyism, Wagner was Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Baden from March 1925 and a member of the Baden diet from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Reichstag (Wahlkreis Baden) from 1933. Wagner was appointed Reichsstatthalter on 5 May of the same year. Responsible for reorganizing the Nazi Party in Baden, he was also Chairman of the local branch of the Nordische Gesellschaft (Nordic Society). Between 1940 and 1945, Wagner was Chief of the Civil Administration in Alsace.
At Hitler's instigation, he carried out the deportations of October 1940, as a result of which more than 6,500 Jews from the Gaue of Baden and Saarpfalz were summarily expropriated and dumped into the unoccupied zone of France, without any previous warning. Wagner was imprisoned in 1945 and sentenced to death by a French military court.
He was executed in Strasbourg on 14 August 1946.