Wagner, Woldemar

The Rev. Woldemar Wagner, son of Gottlieb Wagner, was born in 1898 [in Dietel according to some sources, in Vladikavkaz according to others]. He studied theology at the seminary in Leningrad and was ordained in 1929. He served the congregation in Dietel (1929-1931).  He was arrested in Saratov on 23 August 1931 for counter-revolutionary nationalist activities, but the charges were dismissed. He then served as the last pastor of St. Catherine Lutheran Church in Leningrad (formerly St. Petersburg) from 1931-1935. He was arrested again in the spring of 1935 and sentenced to exile for 5 years in the region of Novosibirsk where he died on 12 November 1942.

He married Paulina Arnst (born in 1904 in the colony of Reinhard; died 11 March 1989 in the Orenburg region). They had three daughters: Frida (born in 1922, in the colony of Reinhard), Hilda (born 1926), and Isolde (born 1930).