Assassination of Gotthilf Wagner
Haganah assassination of German Templer colony leader in 1946.
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Gotthilf Wagner, head of Palestine’s German Templer colonies, was killed by the Haganah on 22 March 1946. The assassination aimed to push Germans out of the region and deeply unsettled the community. British investigators linked the killing to Wagner’s order that Sarona’s residents refuse land sales to Jews.
Quick Facts
- Date
- 22 March 1946
- Victim
- Gotthilf Wagner
- Victim's role
- Leader of the German Templer colonies in Palestine
- Perpetrator
- Haganah (Jewish Resistance Movement)
- Location
- Outlying streets of Tel Aviv
- Motive (british cid conclusion)
- Wagner's instruction to Sarona not to sell land to Jews
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