Christoph Neeser

Christoph Neeser (Greek: Χριστόφορος Νέζερ; (1808-1883) was a Bavarian officer who settled in Greece.

He arrived in the country in 1833 in the expeditionary corps that accompanied Prince Otto, Greece's first king.

In mid-March of the same year, as a lieutenant, he was appointed head of the Athens guard.

On 1 April, together with the Bavarian Major Paligan, he received the keys of the Acropolis of Athens from its last Ottoman commandant, Osman Efendi.

He also wrote a memoir titled The First Years of the Foundation of the Greek Kingdom.