Portrait of Reichsaertzefuehrer Gerhard Wagner.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of Reichsaertzefuehrer Gerhard Wagner.
One of a collection of portraits included in a 1939 calendar of Nazi officials. - Date
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1939
- Locale
- Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Geoffrey Giles
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Geoffrey Giles
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Gerhardt Wagner (1888-1939) was Leader of the National Socialist Chamber of Medicine and Plenipotentiary for Health in the Party Office. Wagner was from Neu-Heiduk, Upper Silesia and was born in August of 1888. He served as a medical officer during World War I and in the Epp and Oberland Freikorps. Practicing medicine in Munich, he joined the NSDAP in 1924. He co-founded the National Socialist German Doctors' Association in 1932 and was Reich Medical Leader by 1934. As a member of the Reichstag, he was Nazi Medical Leader of Franconia in 1933. Wagner was strongly anti-Jewish and supported the sterilization of the handicapped as well as Jews. He was considered the "godfather" of the euthanasia program. Wagner died in Munich on March 25, 1939.
[Sources: Wistrich, Robert. "Who's Who in Nazi Germany." MacMillan, 1982; Zentner, Christian. "Encyclopedia of the Third Reich." MacMillan, 1991.]
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