“Gentlemen, our preparations are so well in hand that we can sleep soundly tonight”
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Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. Though ideologically opposed to Nazism, he played a key role in the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 through his appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
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politics · President of Germany from 1925 to 1934 · politician · military personnel · soldier · lord of the manor · general field marshal · also Paul von Hindenburg, Hindenburg, von Hindenburg
Born 2 October 1847 · Died 2 August 1934 · Q2667
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2026· 2 entries
Business Today: From Hindenburg Attack To US Legal Battle: Gautam Adani Says ‘Truth Does Not Need Noise’
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2019· 1 entry
Reported claimRated This incorrectly conflates multiple events in Hitler’s rise. Von Hindenburg dissolved parliament at Hitler’s request in 1933 in order to hold an election. We’ve seen no evidence that Hitler said dissolution was to bypass those trying to stop “the will of the people”. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “On 30th January 1939 Adolf Hitler asked President von Hindenburg to dissolve parliament to stop politicians bypassing “the will of the people.”” This incorrectly conflates multiple events in Hitler’s rise. Von Hindenburg dissolved parliament at Hitler’s request in 1933 in order to hold an election. We’ve seen no evidence that Hitler said dissolution was to bypass those trying to stop “the will of the people”..
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1949· 1 entry
Polish authorities razed the site, leaving few traces
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1944· 1 entry
As the Soviets approached, Generalleutnant Oskar von Hindenburg moved his parents' remains to western Germany
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1937· 1 entry
Was named in his honor, as was the Hindenburgdamm, a causeway joining the island of Sylt to mainland Schleswig-Holstein that was built during his time in office
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1934· 8 entries
Died 1934-08-02.
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Awarded honorary citizenship presented by Saarbrücken (1934).
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“the artists were a distraction [with which] we would have preferred to dispense”
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“In the Great War ledger, the page on which the Russian losses were written has been torn out. No one knows the figure. Five or eight Million?”
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“I have always been a Monarchist. In sentiment I still am. Now it is too late for me to change. But it is not for me to say that the new way is not the better way, the right way. So it may prove to be.”
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“I am not a pacifist. That is not my attitude. But all my impressions of war are so bad that I could be for it only under the sternest necessity — the necessity of fighting Bolshevism or of defending one's country.”
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“Fundamentally, Britain is responsible for the war. She was jealous. British business men wanted this war. It is a British business war. ... We have no dislike for France, nor Russia. We think highly of the French. But Britain! We hate Britain!”
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“Of course, I recognize your fidelity to our Kaiser, King and Lord without reservation.”
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1933· 6 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Speyer (1933).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Paderborn (1933).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Sankt Andreasberg (1933).
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Awarded honorary citizenship presented by Speyer (1933).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Bonn (1933).
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Through his appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany
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1932· 3 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Nuremberg (1932).
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Hindenburg reluctantly agreed in January 1933 to appoint Hitler as chancellor in coalition with the German National People's Party
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To make the president of the High Court of Justice, not the chancellor, first in the line of succession to the presidency and even then only on an interim basis until fresh elections
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1929· 1 entry
Of the Young Plan, which rescheduled reparations payments and opened the way for needed American loans
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1925· 3 entries
Campaign: 1925 Presidential election.
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Career landmark: president of Germany (1925–1934).
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Hindenburg returned to public life to become the second elected president of the Weimar Republic
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1923· 1 entry
Depicted Hindenburg as a figurehead awed by the mystique of the General Staff, concluding that "Ludendorff throughout appears as the uncontested master
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1919· 1 entry
Hindenburg was subpoenaed to appear before the parliamentary commission investigating the responsibility for the outbreak of war in 1914 and for the defeat in 1918
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1918· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Liberty (1918).
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Awarded Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (1914) (1918).
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And who could never belong to the volksgemeinschaft
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1917· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Coburg (1917).
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1916· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (1914) (1916).
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1915· 1 entry
As well as the SMS Hindenburg, a battlecruiser commissioned in the Imperial German Navy in 1917 and the last capital ship to enter service in the Imperial Navy
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1914· 1 entry
Awarded Iron Cross (1914), 1st class (1914).
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1908· 1 entry
Defeated a corps commanded by the Kaiser
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1902· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Friedrich I (1902).
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1897· 1 entry
And in 1900, he was promoted to lieutenant general (equivalent to major general) and received command of the 28th Infantry Division
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1891· 1 entry
And, two years later, was promoted to colonel, commanding an infantry regiment
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1885· 2 entries
To the General Staff and was promoted to major
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Was promoted to major and became a member of the German General Staff
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1878· 1 entry
And assigned to the staff of the II Corps
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1873· 2 entries
Was admitted to the Prussian War College in Berlin, where he studied before being appointed to the General Staff Corps
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Passed the entrance examination for admission to the Kriegsakademie in Berlin
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1870· 1 entry
Awarded Iron Cross (1870), 2nd class (1870).
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1866· 1 entry
“I rejoice in this bright-coloured future. For the soldier, war is the normal state of things [...] If I fall, it is the most honorable and beautiful death”
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1847· 1 entry
Born 1847-10-02.
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