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Signed in pencil, on paper, DR OTTO GESSLER 21/1/1928, a scarce autograph, mounted, the photo is a copy from original, autograph is original period..
one of the conspirators in july 20th plot.

Otto Karl Gessler (or Geßler) (6 February 1875 – 24 March 1955) was a liberal German politician during the Weimar Republic. From 1910 until 1914, he was mayor of Regensburg and from 1913 to 1919 mayor of Nuremberg. He served in numerous Weimar cabinets, most notably as Reichswehrminister (Minister of Defence) from 1920 to 1928.

After the Machtergreifung of the Nazis in 1933, he retired from politics, in part due to ill health, and lived in seclusion in Lindenberg im Allgäu. He was named in documents of Claus von Stauffenberg and was arrested two days after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler of 20 July 1944. He was detained and tortured at Ravensbrück concentration camp and then held at various Berlin prisons until his release in February 1945
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