Thistle

Diestel stands for:

• Diestel or Diestelbach , left tributary of the Emmer near Schieder, town of Schieder-Schwalenberg, Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia

Diestel is the family name of the following people:

• Arnold Diestel (1857–1924), Mayor of Hamburg
• Bernhard Diestel (~ 1620–1660), Jesuit missionary and traveler to China
• Erich Diestel (1892–1973), German lieutenant general
• Ernst Diestel (1859–1936), theologian and poet of the song Alma mater tubingensis
• Heinrich Diestel (1785–1854), German Protestant theologian
• Kurt Diestel (1862–1946), professor and architect
• Ludwig Diestel (1825–1879), Protestant theologian
• Max Diestel (1872–1949), Protestant pastor, superintendent and general superintendent
• Meta Diestel (1877–1968), German oratorio and cantata singer, singing teacher, singing leader and benefactor
• Peter-Michael Diestel (* 1952), German lawyer, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the GDR
• Reinhard Diestel (* 1959), German mathematician
• Ursula Diestel (1920–2015), German actress

See also:

• Thistle (disambiguation)
• Thistles (plant)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.