Günter Riesen
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Riesen was born in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland). His father was the vice president of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German Imperial Railways) and was entitled Geheimrat. Günter Riesen served in the First World War and studied from 1919 to 1924 political economy and economics in Cologne. Riesen graduated in 1922.[1] Günter Riesen was married to a daughter of the wealthy Cologne manufacturer Otto Brügelmann.
The wife of Riesen, Grete, was an early member of the Nazi party in Cologne. Riesen himself joined the party in 1932. Gauleiter Josef Grohé therefore found Riesen suitable for a high position after the seizure.[2]
