Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff von, born on 02-10-1847 in Posen
, Prussia (now Poznan, Poland), into an aristocratic German family.
as son of
Otto Friedrich von Hindenburg Luise Schwickart. During an honourable but undistinguished military career, he served in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, retiring in 1911.
Generalmajor von Hindenburg around 1897 with five commander crosses and the plaque of the Order of St. Mauritius and St. Lazarus. On 24-09-1879 Hindenburg married Gertrud von Sperling (1860 – 1921).
The couple had a son, Oskar (1883 – 1960)
and two daughters,
Irmengard Pauline (1880–1948) and Annemarie (1891–1978).
However, in 1914 he was recalled as the nominal superior of Erich Ludendorff, a talented military strategist. Credit for Erich Ludendorff‘‘s

























Death and burial ground of Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff von.





Hitler was publicly respectful to Hindenburg, who remained in office until his death on his estate Neudeck near Freystadt
on 02-08-1934 of Alzheimer and lung cancer, age 86.


The day before Hitler received word that Hindenburg was on his deathbed. Hitler then had the cabinet pass the “Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich,” which stipulated that upon Hindenburg’s death, the offices of president and chancellor would be merged under the title of Leader and chancellor (Führer und Reichskanzler). The day of Hindenburg’s death, the cabinet ordered a plebiscite for August 19 for the German people to approve the combination of the two offices. All soldiers would have to swear an oath to Hitler personally.


Contrary to Hindenburg’s will, he was interred with his wife in a magnificent ceremony at the Tannenberg Memorial.
In 1944, as the Russians approached, Generalleutnant Oskar von Hindenburg moved his parents’ remains to western Germany. After World War II the Poles razed the Tannenberg Memorial to the ground.





