26 Facts About Leo Wagner

However, during the trial it emerged that in 1972 Leo Wagner had received a loan of precisely 50,000 Marks from an undisclosed source.

Leo Wagner came originally from Ellingen in Middle Franconia.

Leo Wagner was 20 in September 1939 when war broke out.

In 1946 Leo Wagner became chairman of the Gunzburg local CSU party.

Leo Wagner secured a seat as a successful list candidate for Bavaria.

Leo Wagner remained a Bundestag member till 1976, elected by party colleagues to serve no fewer than twelve years, between 1963 and 1975, as the parliamentary business manager for the CSU parliamentary group.

In 1965 Leo Wagner was one of those parliamentarians who took a lead in setting up the German- Korean parliamentary group.

Leo Wagner was a popular councillor and, later, member of parliament with people who came to seek his advice.

Leo Wagner received visitors in the large room on the first floor at the family home at Gunzburg.

Leo Wagner was not much at home, but would appear for meals at which his demeanour was, at best, taciturn and distant.

Meanwhile, after becoming a Bundestag member, Leo Wagner took an apartment at Bonn, the city far to the west in which the Bundestag was based at that time.

Leo Wagner preferred to make his arrangements privately and rented an apartment in the quarter surrounding the Hofgarten.

Leo Wagner frequently received visits from prostitutes at his apartment, and became a regular presence at several night clubs in the Bonn-Cologne area, spending implausibly large amounts of money on champagne.

Elfriede Leo Wagner took to telephoning her husband at his Bonn apartment in the evenings.

Nevertheless, the articles included what amounted to an allegation that Leo Wagner has used his parliamentary status inappropriately in order to support attempts to borrow more money than he could afford to repay.

The press were informed that Leo Wagner was at risk of committing suicide.

Leo Wagner remained in hospital, undergoing treatment, for several months.

Leo Wagner would sit in front of the television watching one film after another with a bottle beside her.

On 20 February 1975 Leo Wagner submitted his resignation from the Bundestag in writing.

Leo Wagner had suffered a stroke, and was taken away in an ambulance.

Bundestag members from the CDU and CSU such as Leo Wagner were expected to vote in support of their party leaderships in order to ensure that the government fell.

Leo Wagner had received 50,000 marks from a leading SPD member called Karl Wienand in return for his abstention.

In March 1975 the news magazine Stern published a speculative allegation that Leo Wagner had, like Julius Steiner, accepted a bribe from the East German intelligence services, in return for which he had abstained in the 1972 parliamentary confidence vote against the Brandt government.

In November 2000 the respected news magazine Der Spiegel revived the hitherto speculative reports that Leo Wagner had been the second Bundestag member, along with Julius Steiner, who had abstained in the 1972 confidence vote against the Brandt government.

Leo Wagner looked like a good prospect for a bribe, and when approached with an offer he accepted it.

Leo Wagner nevertheless admitted that he had known the journalist Georg Fleissmann since the 1960s, albeit without ever having been aware, he insisted, of Fleissmann's connections to East Germany.