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GAULEITER ADOLF WAGNER/ (1890 – 1944) Gauleiter and Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria and a leader in the “Night of the Long Knives”.Photo card b/w, showing Wagner in uniform seated among a crowd of men in suits. Wagner signs on the bottom-right in black ink.

Adolf Wagner (1 October 1890 in Algrange, Alsace-Lorraine – 12 April 1944 in Bad Reichenhall)
high-ranking Nazi Party official born in Algrange, Alsace-Lorraine.
Hitler apparently remained on good terms with Wagner. When Wagner died in April 1944, two years after suffering a stroke that had effectively incapacitated him, the increasingly reclusive Der Führer made a rare public appearance to attend his lavish funeral, and posthumously awarded him the German Order, the Nazi Party’s highest decoration.