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
Wagner in 1938
Nine of the defendants in the Beer Hall Putsch treason trial on 1 April 1924. Robert Wagner at far right
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup d'état led by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, General Erich Ludendorff, and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9
Nazis at the Marienplatz in Munich during the Putsch
Erich Ludendorff on the cover of Time, 19 November 1923
Odeonsplatz in Munich, 9 November
Early Nazis who participated in the attempt to seize power during the 1923 Putsch