Paul Friedrich Karl Hocheisen (27 May 1870 – 22 December 1944) was a German physician and long-serving medical officer with the Army of Württemberg (1892–1918) and the Reichswehr (1919–1929).

In 1889, he enlisted as a one-year volunteer with the 1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers of the Royal Prussian Army in Berlin.

[1] During the First World War, Hocheisen served from 1914 to 1918 as a regimental and divisional medical officer with the 54th Reserve Division.

He then served until October 1926 as the divisional medical officer at the 5th Division in Wehrkreis (military district) V, headquartered in Stuttgart.

On 30 April 1929, Hocheisen retired from the army with the rank of brevet Generaloberstabsarzt (Senior Staff Surgeon General).

These services were necessitated by the fact that in the years before the Nazis came to power, SA meetings, rallies and street demonstrations often were accompanied by outbreaks of violence, resulting in many casualties.

In May 1933, Hocheisen was appointed the representative of the Reich Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, to the Office of the Commissioner for Volunteer Nursing.

In January 1934, he was named first deputy to the Reich Commissioner for Volunteer Nursing in the Interior Ministry and, on 16 July 1934, he was made the OSAF head of liaison with the DRK.

[7] The nominal president of the DRK, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was chiefly given ceremonial tasks, while Hocheisen managed the day-to-day business of the agency.