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About Otto Wagener
Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Wagener was a German professional military officer and Nazi Party official. He was a member of the Nazi paramilitary unit, the Sturmabteilung, rising to become its effective leader as the first SA-Stabschef from 1929 to 1930. At the start of the Nazi regime, he served as Adolf Hitler's chief economic advisor. He survived the Röhm purge of SA leaders in 1934 and returned to military service in the Second World War, becoming a Generalmajor and military governor of the Italian Dodecanese islands. Following the war, he was interned, put on trial in Italy and sentenced to prison for war crimes.
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- politician, entrepreneur, major general, military officer
- Position held
- member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- April 29, 1888
- Died
- August 9, 1971