unquestioning follower of Hitler, ruled with ruthless efficiency and almost unlimited power in the last war years in Bavaria. Awards and decorations 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 Iron Cross 1st Class 1918 Wound Badge 1931 Brunswick Rally Badge, c.1931 Honour Chevron for the Old Guard, February 1934 Golden Party Badge, 1934 The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 with Swords, c.1934 Clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class, October 1939 1939 Wound Badge in Silver, 1940 War Merit Cross 2nd Class without Swords War Merit Cross 1st Class without Swords Nazi Party Long Service Award in Bronze Nazi Party Long Service Award in Silver Notes References External links Detailed biography of Paul Giesler (Historisches Centrum Hagen) Town of Siegen: Paul Giesler's life path Hitler's will from 29 April 1945 (all in German) Picture of Paul Giesler, undated Historisches Lexikon Bayerns 1895 births 1945 suicides People from Siegen People from the Province of Westphalia German Lutherans German National People's Party politicians Nazi Party politicians Stahlhelm members Holocaust perpetrators in Germany Young German Order members Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Nazi Party officials Gauleiters Nazis who committed suicide in Germany Joint suicides by Nazis Prussian Army personnel Ministers-President of Bavaria 20th-century Lutherans 1945 deaths German Army personnel of World War I