Diesener, Paul, born on 27-04-1882 in Berlin,
the Gauleiter of Berlin was Joseph Goebbels
(did you know), joined the Army Service on 28-02-1902, age 19, as a Fahnenjunker in the 6th Grenadier Regiment. With the outbreak of the first war, Paul was in the 153rd Infantry Regiment and wounded
in hospital from 15-10-1914 to December 1914. Paul ended the war as an adjutant with the General Command of the XIV Army Corps, under command of General der Infanterie Otto von Below
. Diesener was temporary in the Free Corps of Georg Ludwig Maercker
and retired on 31-12-1920. Maercker died age 59, on 31-12-1924, in Dresden. Following the Armistice of 1918 that saw the end of fighting and of the Bolshevik revolution that led to the creation of the Soviet Union, there were many examples of disturbances throughout Germany. Maercker a WWI General suggested the formation of Freikorps, Free Corps, to suppress these and a number of formations formed themselves, usually around individual army officers. Diesener reactivated in the growing Reichswehr on 01-10-1932. When World War II started he was the commander of the 52nd Border Protection Regiment. Diesener was transferred to the Africa Front, under Erwin Rommel





















Death and burial ground of Diesener, Paul.


Paul Diesener lived in Hildesheim, where he at the old age of 88, on 22-05-1970, died. He is buried with his wife Gertrud, born Gwallig, who died old age 90 on 04-03-1992, on the Nordfriedhof of Hildesheim, next to WWII Generalmajor der Flieger, Kommandeur Kassel-Rothwesten, Werner Mundt




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