Helmut Rudolf Wagner was born on August 5, 1904 in Dresden, Saxony in Germany to Rudolf Richard Wagner and Olga Wagner (née Fischer).[1] From 1919 to 1922, he attended a technical school and then from 1922 to 1924 the college TH Dresden.[2] From 1925 to 1932, he worked as a journalist, but also from 1925 or 1929 to 1932 as an adult education teacher in Gera, Thuringia.[3]
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