The crimes against the family of Dr. Hanns and Lydia Wagner proven here were preceded by an internal family war about – typical for Austria – unresolved Nazi co-responsibility.

In the course of coming to terms with Nazi crimes, Dr. Hanns Wagner deeply regretted that he had taken on a role in the German Nazi economy as an entrepreneur and industrial consultant and that he had not faced up to the detectable crimes of the Nazi regime and had not fought against them sufficiently.

This was despite the fact, that in 1941 – after the first tangible signs of Nazi crimes – he himself immediately resigned from the NSDAP and supported the Nazi resistance in Vienna and in Prague at the risk of his own life.

In contrast, the father of the physician Dr. Ernst Höfer, Dr. Ernst Höfer sen., who died in 2003, never regretted his leading role in the High Command of the Nazi Air Force and in truth never abandoned his Nazi ideology.

After the end of the war in 1945, Dr. Ernst Höfer sen. fled Vienna and went into hiding with like-minded people in the vicinity of the former SS stronghold in Zell am See, where he was immediately assigned a political post in the district administration.
With the help of these former Nazi loyalists, he helped shape Salzburg’s local politics from 1949 onward, serving as deputy mayor from 1954 to 1959, and subsequently as mayor of Zell am See until 1969.

Immediately after the birth of his son, Dr. Hanns Wagner found this network of former Nazi supporters in Salzburg and the continued political activity of his brother-in-law Dr. Ernst Höfer sen. in his family environment intolerable.
In due overestimation of himself, the later wronged Dr. Hanns Wagner took a stand against this Nazi environment in Salzburg and Zell am See.

By his publication of inner-family background information about Dr. Ernst Höfer sen. he damaged the political career of Dr. Ernst Höfer sen. in Salzburg to such an extent that he had to resign from his office as mayor and all political functions in 1969. Those conditions have led to the family war – inherited from the son of Dr. Hanns Wagner, who was also damaged – motivated by blind revenge, which Dr. Ernst Höfer jun. and his mother have waged against the family and the son of Dr. Hanns Wagner ever since.

The son of Dr. Hanns Wagner positively supported his father’s change of political mind and his coming to terms with the Nazi past and thus, through no fault of his own, incurred the hatred of the Höfer family in Zell am See.

Nach der Ermordung seiner Ehefrau Lydia Wagner durch den Arzt Dr. Ernst Höfer wurde er von der Familie Höfer selbst vom blitzartig organisierten Begräbnis seiner Frau Lydia Wagner in Zell am See fern gehalten.

Beweis Sterbepate Lydia Wagner:

In order to prevent that the widowed husband could discover the planned fraud in the inheritance proceedings after his wife Lydia Wagner and also the forgery of her will, it was requested that the widowed husband be declared incapacitated and – like the aggrieved son – be represented by a third party administrator or curator who could neither recognize the errors in the forged will nor the false list of assets.

For the same reason, the criminals in the probate proceedings concealed the residential address of the aggrieved son – which was verifiably known to them – in order to bring about the assignment of a curator in absence, who was also unable to recognize the falsification of the handwriting of the will as well as the false list of assets.