Wilhelm Freiherr von Faupel
(29.10.1873 - 1.5.1945)
place of birth:  Breslau, Niederschlesien  (Wroclaw, Poland)


Prussian operations officer and future diplomat, who also served during the Great War as a corps-level and field army chief of staff. After the War, Colonel von Faupel continued his military service by founding the Freikorps Faupel - Görlitz, which he commanded until his retirement in March 1921 as the Freikorps transitioned into the Reichswehrkorps. 

For the next ten years, von Faupel functioned as a military advisor in Argentina and Peru. He joined the German Reich's diplomatic corps in 1936 as charge-de-affaires in Salamanca, Spain. The following year he served as Germany's Ambassador in Madrid. Returning to Argentina as a brevetted Generalleutnant, he was supposedly involved in Juan Peron's successful coup which deposed the Castillo government in May of 1943. Von Faupel went missing after May 1945, possibly committing suicide in Berlin, or living out a life incognito in the Hesse. His whereabouts thus remains the subject of numerous rumors.