life at the Wolf's Lair on 20 July 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo in late July and sent to a concentration camp. His name had appeared in a document prepared by the conspirators. It referred to "upright and capable" individuals who should be approached to be "convinced of the necessity of such a step and to support it. e.g. Gauleiter Wagner." Wagner was moved to a police prison in Potsdam and then to the underground prison at Gestapo headquarters on 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in Berlin. The circumstances of Wagner’s death are unclear. The most widely accepted account is that he was hanged by the Gestapo in the closing weeks of the war on 22 April 1945. An observer allegedly informed the family of the execution the same month. An alternative version by a fellow prisoner claims that Wagner survived until the prison was liberated by Red Army forces on 2 May, but was accidentally shot by a Russian soldier. Selected works Leitfaden der Hochschule für Politik der NSDAP, Munich 1933, published by the Hochschule für Politik der NSDAP (editor) Die Reichsindexziffer der Lebenshaltungskosten. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Reform (diss. rer. pol. Munich 1935), Würzburg 1935 Die Preispolitik im Vierjahresplan (Kiel discourses 51), Jena 1938 Gesunde Preispolitik, Dortmund 1938 References Sources External links Brief biography and photo (in German) Online-Biography of Josef Wagner 1899 births 1945 deaths Escapees from French detention Gauleiters German Catholics German escapees German Army personnel of World War I German people executed by Nazi Germany German prisoners of war in World War I Holocaust perpetrators in Germany Holocaust perpetrators in Poland Lorraine-German people Members of the Academy for German Law Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic National Socialist Motor Corps members Nazi Party officials Nazi Party politicians Nazis executed by Nazi Germany People from Algrange People from Alsace-Lorraine Sturmabteilung officers 20th-century German newspaper publishers (people) World War I prisoners of war held by France Politicians from the Province of Silesia Executed mass murderers