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Robert Heinrich Wagner
Robert Heinrich Wagner served as Gauleiter of Baden and head of civil administration in occupied Alsace. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Baden and occupied Alsace through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Robert Heinrich Wagner was born at Lindach on 13 October 1895 and served as Gauleiter of Baden and head of civil administration in occupied Alsace. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He directed policies of Germanisation, expulsions and repression; the trial also addressed forced German military service for Alsatians and interference with occupation courts. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Permanent Military Tribunal at Strasbourg sentenced him to death and confiscation of property on 3 May 1946; after appeal, he was executed on 14 August 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile distinguishes Wagner's responsibility as head of an occupation administration from acts whose direct perpetrators are not identified by the cited sources. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From 1940, as head of civil administration, he imposed Nazi Germanisation and compulsory military service on Alsace. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Strasbourg trial ran from 23 April to 3 May 1946 and ended in a death sentence. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The Permanent Military Tribunal at Strasbourg sentenced him to death and confiscation of property on 3 May 1946; after appeal, he was executed on 14 August 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
It does not claim that he personally carried out every expulsion or execution and gives no separate victim total. No portrait with a safely verified licence is available. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.