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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 Master Sergeant (Hauptscharführer). 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. Due to his brutality, he was known as "The Beast" and "Wolf". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Wagner is the 396th most popular military personnel (down from 381st in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Austria (down from 232nd in 2019) and the 13th 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 396 out of 2,058. Before him are Erich Priebke, Jean-Andoche Junot, Laskarina Bouboulina, Carl Spaatz, Charles Lee, and Hermann Balck. After him are Gerhard Barkhorn, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Bonifacius, Hans-Valentin Hube, and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Gustav Wagner ranks 55. Before him are Samuel Reshevsky, Akira Yoshizawa, Bernard Katz, Ernesto Sabato, Herta Oberheuser, and J. L. Austin. After him are Bruno Kreisky, Cantinflas, Henri Troyat, Vincent Price, Alfonso García Robles, and Ashok Kumar. Among people deceased in 1980, Gustav Wagner ranks 46. Before him are Gregory Bateson, Robert Whittaker, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Bill Evans, Marian Rejewski, and Kim Jae-gyu. After him are Lewis Milestone, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Mae West, Tadao Takayama, Mohammad Hatta, and Fritz Strassmann.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Gustav Wagner ranks 245 out of 1,424. Before him are Josef von Sternberg (1894), Anna of Tyrol (1585), Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (1176), Fanny Elssler (1810), Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427), and Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (1589). After him are Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein (1869), Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (1073), Katharina Schratt (1853), Bruno Kreisky (1911), Otto Bauer (1881), and Ferdinand Piëch (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Austria

Among military personnels born in Austria, Gustav Wagner ranks 13. Before him are Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Lothar Rendulic (1887), Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1865), and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817). After him are Walter Nowotny (1920), Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818), Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924), Franz Böhme (1885), Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614), and Karl Silberbauer (1911).

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