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Paul Giesler (15 June 1895 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party politician and SA - Obergruppenführer. From 1941, he was the Gauleiter of Westphalia-South, and he was appointed to the same position for the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria in 1942. From 2 November 1942 to 28 April 1945, he was also Ministerpräsident of Bavaria.
Paul Giesler (* 15. Juni 1895 in Siegen; † 8. Mai 1945 in Bischofswiesen) war von 1941 bis 1943 Gauleiter der NSDAP zunächst von Westfalen-Süd, ab 1942 auch von München-Oberbayern. Zudem war er von 1942 bis 1945 bayerischer Ministerpräsident und gemäß Hitlers politischem Testament ab dem 30.
Paul Giesler was a German Nazi Party politician and SA-Obergruppenführer. From 1941, he was the Gauleiter of Westphalia-South, and he was appointed to the same position for the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria in 1942. From 2 November 1942 to 28 April 1945, he was also Ministerpräsident of Bavaria.
Paul Giesler was born in Siegen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He studied to become an architect, but in the early 1920s became involved in politics as a member of right-wing political organizations. By 1924, he was a prominent local leader of the Nazi Party. He was nearly purged during the Night of the Long Knives.
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Paul Giesler, last Gauleiter of Munich-Upper Bavaria, attempted to commit suicide with his wife, fearing capture by the Allied forces but failed and was shot by one of his adjudants near Berchtesgaden on 8 May 1945.
Paul Giesler (15 June 1895 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party functionary responsible for acts of brutality which included killing opponents of the regime in southern Germany. He first joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1922; he reenrolled on 1 January 1928 with Party number 72,741.
May 6, 2021 · Paul Giesler, 13 January 1943, University of Munich, cited in Russell Freedman, We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler (New York: Clarion Books, 2016), p. 65.
