Geissler, Erich, born 11-12-1895 in Büdingen, Hesse, entered the Army as a war volunteer, age 18, on 10-08-1914, in the Replacement Battalion of the 168th Infantry Regiment. Geissler was involved in the first world war and severely wounded in hospital for eleven months, in 1915. Wounded again in 1917 he ended the war as a platoon leader of the III Battalion of the 25th Infantry Regiment. He retired on 15-05-1920, reactivated again on 01-06-1924 as a Leutnant in the 15th Infantry Regiment. With the outbreak of World War II he was commander of the III Battalion of the 87th Infantry Regiment , until 13-01-1940, as an Oberstleutnant. Commander of the II Battalion of the 382nd Infantry Regiment until 21-08-1941 and landed in the Führer Reserve (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know). Became commander in the field again of the Special Purpose Regiment Staff 200 to 01-04-1942 and commander of the 200th Motorized Infantry Regiment, until 15-07-1942. Following commander of the 200th Panzer Grenadier Regiment to 27-12-1942, succeeding Oberstleutnant Gerhard Graf von Schwerin and landed again in the Reserve to 01-05-1943. Geissler, promoted to Generalmajor was detached to the Army Personal Office of the OKH and Department Chief of OKH until 01-05-1945. Geissler was the last commander for eight days of the 78th Volkssturm Division , he succeeded Generalmajor Harald von Hirschfeld, then 32 years old and the youngest German General at that time who was killed in an air attack, on 18-01-1945 in Duplapass, and Geissler landed in Soviet captivity, one of 90.000, until 06-10-1955, as he was released by the intervention of the chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
Death and burial ground of Geissler, Erich.
Living in Oldenburg he died, at the age of 71, on 02-05-1967 and is buried with his wife Charlotte, born Wrasse, who died age 62 on 02-01-1983, on the Gertruden cemetery in Oldenburg.
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