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. He was responsible for multiple acts of brutality, which included killing opponents of the regime in southern Germany. He committed suicide together with his wife in the closing days of the war in Europe.
Giesler in 1943
The graves of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, White Rose student resistance leaders murdered by the Nazis on 22 February 1943
Siegen is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Upper town
Nikolaikirche with a "coronet"
Marienkirche
Siegen pedestrian zone