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Gustav Wagner

1911 - 1980

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Gustav Franz Wagner (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was an Austrian member of the SS with the rank of Staff sergeant (Oberscharführer). Wagner was a deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, where 200,000-250,000 Jews were murdered in the camp's gas chambers during Operation Reinhard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Wagner has received more than 677,648 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gustav Wagner is the 458th most popular military personnel (down from 400th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Austria (down from 249th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Austrian Military Personnel.

Gustav Wagner was a Nazi SS officer who served as the commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gustav Wagner ranks 458 out of 1,468Before him are Saburō Sakai, Raymond A. Spruance, Pavel Nakhimov, Jan Kubiš, Paul von Rennenkampf, and Okita Sōji. After him are Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Christian Wirth, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, James Paul Moody, Roza Shanina, and José Sanjurjo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Gustav Wagner ranks 58Before him are Ernesto Sabato, Karl Silberbauer, Alfred Naujocks, Nicholas Ray, Klaus Fuchs, and Lucille Ball. After him are Akira Yoshizawa, Feodor Lynen, Karel Čurda, Bernard Herrmann, Dieter Wisliceny, and Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. Among people deceased in 1980, Gustav Wagner ranks 49Before him are Vinicius de Moraes, Seretse Khama, Ludwig Guttmann, Lewis Milestone, Kim Jae-gyu, and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. After him are Walter Dornberger, Robert Whittaker, Mario Bava, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Ian Curtis, and V. V. Giri.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Gustav Wagner ranks 279 out of 1,237Before him are Kunigunde of Austria (1465), Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (1418), August Kubizek (1888), Otto, Duke of Austria (1301), Brigitte Bierlein (1949), and Hermann Buhl (1924). After him are Friedrich von Wieser (1851), Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614), Hans Hollein (1934), Friedrich Adler (1879), Oskar Werner (1922), and Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Austria

Among military personnels born in Austria, Gustav Wagner ranks 16Before him are Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Walter Nowotny (1920), Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818), Karl Silberbauer (1911), Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), and Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924). After him are Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614), Franz Böhme (1885), Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (1872), Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1865), Eduard Roschmann (1908), and Gordon Gollob (1912).