- The director Herbert Maisch finished his education before he started career at the military from 1901 till 1910.
- He served during World War I and was wounded several (four) times. In the war he lost one of his right arm.
- He first was active as a director assistant for "Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten" (1935), shortly afterwards he became a movie director himself.
- His last cinematical works came during World War II into being with "Friedrich Schiller" (1940), together with the directors Hans Steinhoff and Karl Anton "Ohm Krüger" (1941), and "Die Zaubergeige" (1944).
- After the end of World War I he was looking for a new challenge and he gained a foothold at the theater as a director. He realised plays in Ulm and Stuttgart and in 1924 he became a stage manager for different theaters in Germany. He executed this position for ten years.
- He joined the film business in 1935.
- Herbert Maisch did not return to the film business after the war, instead of that he concentrated again to his theater career and he managed the Städtische Bühnen in Cologne from 1947 to 1959.
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