Paul Giesler was a German Nazi Party politician and SA-Obergruppenführer. From 1941, he was the Gauleiter of Westphalia-South, and he was appointed to the same position for the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria in 1942. From 2 November 1942 to 28 April 1945, he was also Ministerpräsident of Bavaria. He was responsible for multiple acts of brutality, which included killing opponents of the regime in southern Germany. He committed suicide together with his wife in the closing days of the war in Europe.
Giesler in 1943
The graves of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, White Rose student resistance leaders murdered by the Nazis on 22 February 1943
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.