Josef Wagner was from 1931 the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South and, as of December 1934, also of Gau Silesia. In 1941 he was dismissed from his offices, then expelled from the Nazi Party (NSDAP), imprisoned by the Gestapo, and likely executed around the time of end of the war in Europe.
Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)
Volksdeutsche decorated with the Golden Party Badge by Adolf Hitler in Berlin after the Invasion of Poland in 1939. From left: Ludwig Wolff from Łódź, Otto Ulitz [de] from Katowice, Josef Wagner, Mayor Rudolf Wiesner [de] from Bielsko-Biała, SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz, Senator Erwin Hasbach [de] from Ciechocinek, Baron Gero von Gersdorff [de] from Wielkopolska, Weiss from Jarocin.
Helmuth Brückner was Gauleiter of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in Silesia from 1925 until 1934, when he fell out of political favor.
(1934)