Felix Wankel
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Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War I and was a prominen
Wankel in the 1960s
Wankel engine, type DKM54 (1957)
Wankel-engined NSU Ro 80
Wankel's grave in Heidelberg
Robert Heinrich Wagner
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Robert Heinrich Wagner, born as Robert Heinrich Backfisch, was a German Nazi Party official and politician who served as Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Baden, and Chief of Civil Administration for
Felix Wankel
…the NSDAP in his hometown of Lahr. Here Wankel not only rejoined the party in 1926, but also met the local Gauleiter, i.e. regional head of the NSDAP, Robert Heinrich Wagner. In 1931, Wagner entrusted Wankel with the leadership of the Hitler Youth in Baden. But they soon fell out with each other because Wankel tried to put…
Wagner in 1938
Nine of the defendants in the Beer Hall Putsch treason trial on 1 April 1924. Robert Wagner stands at the far right.