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Wilhelm Wagner
Wilhelm Wagner served as SS-Hauptscharführer, prisoner work-detail leader and commandant of the Landsberg subcamp. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau 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
- Wilhelm Wagner was born in Augsburg on 28 November 1904 and was executed at Landsberg am Lech on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 1940 he commanded the prisoner detail in the Dachau laundry; the sources describe repeated beatings, including violence that ended in one prisoner’s death. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He later held leadership posts in Dachau subcamps and commanded Landsberg near the end of the war; the US military court found him guilty of both charges and sentenced him to death. (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 grounds Wagner’s responsibility in testimony and findings about his own violence and command functions, not in his mere membership in the Dachau staff. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From January 1940 to mid-1943 he commanded the Dachau prisoner laundry and used violence against prisoners under his authority. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He received a death sentence on 13 December 1945 and was hanged at Landsberg on 29 May 1946. (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 US military court in the main Dachau trial found him guilty of both charges and sentenced him to death; clemency was denied and the sentence was carried out on 29 May 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile does not attribute every crime in the subcamps he led to Wagner; it is limited to documented acts of violence and the trial findings. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (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.