In 1915, when large territories came under Ober Ost's administration as a result of military successes on the Eastern Front Erich Ludendorff, von Hindenburg's second in command, set up a system of managing the large area now under its jurisdiction.

Subsequent governments under chancellors Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schleicher during the tumultuous year 1932 obtained President von Hindenburg's decree of legislation under Article 48 when they too found it impossible to obtain a parliamentary majority as the extremist parties on the Left and Right gained power.

In early June 1934, defence minister Werner von Blomberg, on Hindenburg's behalf, issued an ultimatum to Hitler: unless political tension ended in Germany, Hindenburg would likely declare martial law and turn over control of the country to the army.

Unaware of Hindenburg's direct testimony of Germany's military defeat, Germans adopted the Dolchstoss or " stab-in-the-back " theory that Germany had only lost the war because it was betrayed at home by " the socialists, the Communists and the Jews ," which served as Nazism's explanation for Germany's defeat.

On 22 January 1933, Meissner and Hindenburg's son met Hitler, Göring, and Frick at Ribbentrop's home in Berlin's exclusive Dahlem district.

The office effectively came to an end upon Hindenburg's death in 1934 and its powers merged with those of Chancellor.

One scene, of passengers looking out of the windows, was taken from Universal's 1936 newsreel of one of the Hindenburg's previous transatlantic crossings.

Hitler informed them of Hindenburg's declining health and proposed the Reichswehr support him as Hindenburg's successor.

As the Red Army approached in 1945, German troops removed Hindenburg's remains and partly demolished key structures.

It began with the transportation of the deceased president in the dark of night, on a gun carriage, from Hindenburg's East Prussian home Neudeck.

On 2 October 1935, the anniversary of Hindenburg's birthday, the President ’ s bronze coffin was relocated to a new, sombre chamber where he was joined by his wife Gertrud, who was moved from the family plot in Hanover.

Designed by the Kruger brothers and carved by Paul Bronisch, the entrance to Hindenburg's crypt was dominated by two fourteen-foot sculptures of the Eternal Watch, known as the Ewige Wache, which were carved out of more than 120 tons of imported Konigsberg granite.

On 21 January 1945, withdrawing German forces planted demolition charges inside the entrance tower and the tower previously housing von Hindenburg's coffin, causing both towers to collapse.

Invoking President Paul von Hindenburg's constitutional powers, Brüning established a so-called presidential government, basing his administration's authority on presidential emergency decrees which were instituted without prior consent of the Reichstag.

This earned him Reichspresident Hindenburg's attention.

The unfavourable reaction in right-wing circles further undermined Hindenburg's support for Brüning.

He planned to persuade the Reichstag to cancel the 1932 presidential election and extend Hindenburg's term.

Upon Hindenburg's death, one of Crown Prince William's sons would have been invited to assume the throne.

After World War I many Prussian agriculturists gathered in the national conservative German National People's Party ( DNVP ), the term was also applied to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, lord at Neudeck in West Prussia, and to the " camarilla " around him urging the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor, personified by men like Hindenburg's son Oskar and his West Prussian " neighbour " Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, who played a vital role in the Eastern Aid ( Osthilfe ) scandal of 1932 / 33.

In Hitler's 1945 political testament ( written shortly before his suicide ) he appointed Admiral Karl Doenitz to succeed him, but he named Doenitz as President, not Fuehrer, thereby re-establishing a constitutional office which had lain dormant since Hindenburg's death ten years earlier.

The ousted Papen now had Hindenburg's ear, because the latter was beginning to have misgivings about Schleicher ′ s " cryptoparliamentarianism " and willingness to work with the SPD, which the old President despised.

Hindenburg's negotiations with Hitler failed, however, as did Kaas ' attempt to form a coalition in parliament.

The Russian Fifth Army, under Pavel Plehve, was ordered to abandon its Silesia offensive, and moved to help counter Hindenburg's new offensive.

In the same year, after Hindenburg's death, he personally ordered all soldiers in the army to pledge the Reichswehreid ( oath of allegiance ) not to Volk and Fatherland, but to the new Führer Adolf Hitler, which is thought to have limited later opposition to Hitler.

After von Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler also assumed his office as head of state, styling himself Führer und Reichskanzler.

* The General Chief of the Armed Forces and his deputy ;

Jones next served as director, Expeditionary Warfare Division ( N85 ), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, during 1996, then as the deputy chief of staff for plans, policies, and operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

Nikolai Krylenko was the Supreme Commander in Chief, with Aleksandr Myasnikyan as deputy.

As Germany's Chief of the General Staff from 1916, he and his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, rose in the German public's esteem until Hindenburg came to eclipse the Kaiser himself.

The principal officials of the Secretariat include the Under Secretary of the Navy ( the Secretary's principal civilian deputy ), the Assistant Secretaries of the Navy ( ASN ), the General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy ( JAG ), the Naval Inspector General ( NIG ), the Chief of Legislative Affairs, and the Chief of Naval Research.

When he heard of this, Helmuth von Moltke, the German Army Chief of Staff, recalled Prittwitz and his deputy to Berlin.

On 29 August the German Chief of the General Staff, Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General Paul von Hindenburg, with General Erich Ludendorff as his deputy, but in effect the operational commander.

Livingstone, dubbed ' Red Ken ' by some newspapers, managed to gain the guarded support of the Labour deputy leader Illtyd Harrington and the party Chief Whip and set about his new administration.

His abilities as an administrative counselor and deputy Chief of Mission gained him attention from the State Department, which rapidly advanced his career.

He recently served as deputy Menteri Besar, or Chief Minister of Selangor.

The CFD was organized in March 1872 and consists of one Chief, one assistant chief, one deputy chief and one battalion chief.

The RFD was organized in May 1871 and consists of one Chief, one deputy chief and three assistant chiefs.

There is also a mace holder, the Chief Steward ( responsible for College Security ) or his deputy, who proceeds the Caput in a procession.

The Venona Project was initiated in 1943, under orders from the deputy Chief of Military Intelligence ( G-2 ), Carter W. Clarke .< ref >

Chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Ito acted in Ōhira's place as deputy after his death.

Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee became Chief, Services of Supply, U. S. Army Forces British Isles, and later deputy theater commander, ETOUSA.

The Chief Prosecutor is assisted by 2 Chief Deputy Prosecutors ( premiers avocats généraux ) and a staff of about 22 deputy prosecutors ( avocats généraux ), and 2 assistant prosecutors ( substituts ).

The CSEC is accountable to the Minister of National Defence through its deputy head, the Chief of the CSEC.

Cramphorn was formerly Flanagan's deputy, and with Flanagan's resignation Cramphorn acted as Chief Constable while the Policing Board sought a permanent replacement.

Cramphorn continued as Orde's deputy until September 2002, when he was appointed Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police.

Commander in Chief was Tsar Ferdinand, while the actual command was in the hands of his deputy, General Michail Savov.