Henri Albert Niessel
Henri Albert Niessel (born October 24, 1866 in Paris , † December 26, 1955 ) was a French general and from 1926 to 1931 a member of the Supreme War Council.
Life
Niessel served in World War I as a division commander and commanding general of an army corps on the Western Front and was then chief of the military mission in Russia (1917–1918). From 1919 to 1920 he was head of the Inter-Allied Baltic Commission . From 1920 to 1921, in turn, Niessel headed the French military mission in Poland . Back in France he was commander of the 9th Army Corps in Tours from 1921 to 1924 and 1924 to 1926 inspector general of the Armée de l'air .
Awards
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
- French war cross (1914–1918) with three palm branches
- Belgian war cross
- Polish war cross
- Czech war cross
- Moroccan war cross
Web links
- Literature by and about Henri Albert Niessel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henri Albert Niessel in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Age of Imperialism and the First World War , 1977, p. 105.
- ^ The New York Times : Letts Protest Against Allied Order. To Halt Pursuit of Beaten Germans, November 26, 1919.
- ^ Hans von Rimscha, Hellmuth Weiss, Baltic Historical Commission: From the Baltic Provinces to the Baltic States «Contributions to the history of the origins of the republics of Estonia and Latvia 1918–1920» , JG Herder Institute, 1977, p. 38.
- ↑ Ralph Schattkowsky: Locarno and Eastern Europe , Hitzeroth, 1994, pp. 79f.
- ↑ Qui êtes-vous? , Volume 3, pp. 570f.
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| SURNAME | Niessel, Henri Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French officer, most recently army general; Member of the French Supreme War Council (1926–1931) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1955 |