Heer Generalleutnant Meisel, March 1945 OKH - anyone heard of him?

[hucks216]

Hello all,

Does anyone have any information - or have actually heard of - a Generalleutnant Meisel during WW2, possibly with a link to the OKH? There is a March '45 dated EK I citation signed by him in Forman Third Reich Docs vol 1 and I have found another March '45 dated citation (EK II this time) with his signature on it but I have not been able to find any definite references to him.

A Google search has one very brief reference to a General Meisel in a subject under the headline The German Army Confronts The NSFO when it returns the answers to my search request but the actual site doesn't mention him in the one page it publishes on the web for free. I have Wolf Keilig's 'Die Generale Des Heeres' but he isn't mentioned in it and he isn't on the Axis Biographical Research website. I know there was an Admiral Meisel but the one I seek was a Generalleutnant in March 1945.

Any information, or pointers, is much appreciated.

Edited May 7, 2010 by hucks216

[hucks216]

Edit: Information found after someone pointed out that it is Ernst Maisel, rather than Meisel.

[Gareth Collins]

Edit: Information found after someone pointed out that it is Ernst Maisel, rather than Meisel.

Ernst Maisel

* 16.09.1896 in Landau/Pfalz

+ 16.12.1978 Schönau am Königssee

26.07.1915 Fahnenjunker

25.08.1915 Leutnant (Pat. v. 11.05.1914)

01.07.1922 Patent vom 01.02.1916 erhalten

01.04.1925 Oberleutnant

01.04.1932 Hauptmann

01.04.1936 Major

01.08.1939 Oberstleutnant

01.10.1941 Oberst (Pat. v. 01.03.1941)

01.06.1943 Generalmajor

01.10.1944 Generalleutnant

Parents: Oberstleutnant Karl Maisel & Lilly geb. Bregard

04.01.1915 Kriegsfreiwilliger im 12. bayrischen Feldartillerie-Regiment

28.03.1915 ins Feld

25.02.1917 Adjutant der II. Abteilung/FAR 12

13.12.1917 beim bayrischen 1. Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment

06.05.1918 Adjutant der II. Abteilung/FAR 12

31.12.1918 bei der II. E-Abteilung des 4. bayrischen Feldartillerie-Regiments

22.01.1919 Batterie-Führer beim 12. bayrischen Feldartillerie-Regiment

06.02.1919 Adjutant der II. Abteilung/FAR 12

27.02.1919 Adjutant des Feldartillerie-Regiments 12

07.04.1919 im Freikorps Epp

13.04.1919 im Reichswehr-Artillerie-Regiment 21

28.10.1919 im Reichswehr-Artillerie- im Reichswehr-

01.12.1919 Adjutant der I. Abteilung/Rw-AR 23

01.10.1920 im Reichswehr-Infanterie-Regiment 46

01.01.1921 im Infanterie-Regiment 21, Nürnberg

01.01.1927 Adjutant des II. Bataillons/IR 21

01.02.1931 Kompaniechef der 13./IR 21

01.04.1933 Adjutant des Infanterie-Regiments 21

01.10.1934 Adjutant des Infanterie-Regiments Nürnberg

01.10.1935 Adjutant des Infanterie-Regiments 21

06.10.1936 Adjutant der 15. Infanterie-Division, Frankfurt/Main

10.11.1938 Kommandeur des III./ Infanterie-Regiment 104

10.04.1940 Führerreserve IX

01.05.1940 Adjutant des stellvertretenden Generalkommandos des IX. AK

01.05.1941 Kommandeur des Infanterie-Regiments 42

25.09.1942 Führerreserve und Ateilungschef im Heerespersonalamt

15.01.1943 Amtsgruppenchef P2 (Persönliche Bearbeitung der Disziplinarangelegenheiten der Offiziere)

01.10.1944 Stellvertretender Chef HPA

Married since 15.08.1935 with Liselotte geb. Barth.

Together with his chief, General Burgdorf, he was the bearer of the poison for GFM Rommel (14.10.1944) for the enforced suicide.

Source: Dr. Dieter Zinke.