Early Life
Georg Lindemann was born in Osterburg (Altmark) in the Province of Saxony. Georg was a 1st cousin of Dr. jur. Ernst Lindemann, father of Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann, the only commander of the German battleship Bismarck.
Lindemann joined the Prussian Officer corps and served in the World War I on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front. After the war, he joined Von Lettow's Freikorps and, during the civil unrest of 1919, helped to crush the Communist Workers Council in Hamburg. In 1930, Lindemann was serving as Commanding officer of the 13th Reiter Regiment.
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