Bavarian nobleman, and soldier, later a Brigadier General in the Chilean army.

Johann von Kiesling was born in Munich, attended military school there in the 1890s rising to the rank of Full Lieutenant, and qualified to join the General Staff. In 1910 he was given leave to serve as an instructor in Argentina, but an encounter with an official of the Chilean army in Berlin persuaded him instead to join the General Staff of that army as a Full Lieutenant from 1911 to 1914, in which year he returned to Bavaria as a Major in an infantry regiment, serving in World War I in the Middle East. In 1924 he returned to Chile, where he acted first as an instructor at the War Academy. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1933, retiring in 1937. — He had one son and four daughters.

Jeanette Schenker, during her travels to Chile in 1936, met the General, his son, , and daughter-in-law, Elfie (Elfride) von Kiesling, and visited his home in Santiago, and his large country estate in the mountains outside that city.

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