Arthur Giesl von Gieslingen

Arthur Freiherr Giesl von Gieslingen (19 June 1857 – 3 December 1935) was an Austrian general officer during the First World War.

After having been educated at the Theresian Military Academy, Giesl von Gieslingen was posted to a regiment of dragoons in 1875.

In 1912 Giesl von Gieslingen became commander of the VIII Corps in Prague, where he had as chief of staff an old collaborator of his Evidenzbureau days, Colonel Alfred Redl, who in 1913 was unmasked as a Russian spy.

After setbacks against the Serbs Giesl von Gieslingen was retired to the reserve in the rank of general der kavallerie.

Recalled to active duty in 1917, he was assigned to the staff of the commander of replacement services until war's end.