Schleicher claimed that Brüning could have had Hindenburg ′ s term extended by the Reichstag, but chose not to in order to humiliate Hindenburg by making him appear on the same stage as Social Democratic leaders.

Over Kuntzen's protests, Blomberg chose to go with Hindenburg to meet his father, who swore him in as Defence Minister.

Over Kuntzen's protests, Blomberg chose to go with Hindenburg to meet with the President, who swore him in as Defence Minister.

Streams of aristocrats, including President Paul von Hindenburg ( one of Germany ’ s Field Marshals during World War I ), were frequent callers, blending with students and workers, anyone whom Pacelli, the shrewdest of diplomats, chose to smile upon ".

Shows Wilhelm II and " Paul von Hindenburg | Hindenburg the winner of Tannenberg ".

1998 photo of the foundations of the Tannenberg Memorial, which later served as the burial site of Paul von Hindenburg.

Ludendorff sent the official dispatch from Tannenberg, and the battle was named Battle of Tannenberg at the direct request of Hindenburg.

Dedicated by Hindenburg on the 10th anniversary of the battle of Tannenberg in 1924 near Hohenstein ( Ostpreußen ) ( now Olsztynek, Poland ), the structure, which was financed by donations, was built by the architects Johannes and Walter Krüger of Berlin and completed in 1927.

The Baedecker guide of 1936 described the Tannenberg Memorial " Where President Hindenburg rests beside his fallen comrades " as " a place of national pilgrimage ".

In August 1946, 20 months after being removed from the Tannenberg Memorial, Hindenburg and his wife were finally laid to rest by the American army at St. Elizabeth's, the church of his Teutonic ancestors in Marburg, where they remain today.

Hindenburg relied heavily upon Ludendorff and Max Hoffmann in planning the successful operations in the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes.

Although not trusted by the new German commanders Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff due to his previous disobedience, François played the decisive role in the upcoming Battle of Tannenberg.

Hindenburg had intercepted Russian reports of the proposed invasion into Silesia, and saw an opportunity to repeat his crushing victory at the Battle of Tannenberg, by hitting the Russian flank as it moved into Silesia.

Most controversially, on August 28, Moltke sent two corps and a cavalry division to reinforce Ludendorff and Hindenburg just before the epic victory at the Battle of Tannenberg ( 1914 ).

In 1914 during World War I a German army under the command of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg won an important victory over two Russian armies in the Second Battle of Tannenberg ( which actually took place closer to Olsztyn-then known as Allenstein-but was named as " Tannenberg " by the victorious Germans for propaganda purposes, to cast it as revenge for their medieval defeat ) who had invaded East Prussia.

In World War I, Hindenburg won critical victories at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes, ejecting Russian forces from East Prussia.

Hoffmann was then able to devise a plan for an encirclement victory over Alexander Samsonov's Second Army in the south ; which Hindenburg quickly put into action upon his arrival, leading to the Battle of Tannenberg.

A few years after the war, when touring the field at Tannenberg, Hoffmann told a group of army cadets " See-this is where Hindenburg slept before the battle, this is where Hindenburg slept after the battle, and this is where Hindenburg slept during the battle.

In August 1916, Ludendorff had been appointed Generalquartiermeister, deputy chief of the OHL under Hindenburg, with whom he had worked in the same relative position in East Prussia, securing notably the victories of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes.

Hindenburg, and his chief of staff, Erich Ludendorff, then destroyed the two invading Russian armies at the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes.

There was an anecdote from Litten's school years, where he was asked in the classroom if they should hang a picture of Paul von Hindenburg, victor of the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg, Litten replied that he'd always been in favour of hanging him.

* In the film The Hindenburg ( 1975 ), the German countess played by Anne Bancroft leaves Germany because her estate in Peenemünde has been confiscated by the Nazi Germans.

He firmly rejected all suggestions making the president's disloyal behaviour public because he considered such a move indecent, and still considered Hindenburg the " last bulwark " of the German people.

It should be noted that when Schleicher learned that his government was doomed because Hindenburg refused the dissolution, Schleicher thought his successor was going to be Papen, and as such it was towards blocking that event that Schleicher devoted his energy.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff rejected the offer, because, after victory over Russia, they again believed themselves to be in a stronger position.

Hindenburg vetoed Goerdeler because of his former membership in the German National People's Party ( DNVP ).

** hydrogen – not widely used for aircraft since the Hindenburg disaster because of high flammability ( except for some sport balloons as well as nearly all unmanned scientific and weather balloons ).

He claimed Hindenburg and Ludendorff controlled Germany from behind-the-scenes regardless of which politician was in office and that it was unnecessary to appease Germany to stop her from going Bolshevik because Prussian militarism was still the dominant force.

Another tourist sight in Anderten is the Hindenburg Lock, which was the biggest lock in Europe at the time of its construction in 1928.

Thermite's main ingredients were also utilized for their individual qualities, specifically reflectivity and heat insulation, in a paint coating or dope for the German zeppelin Hindenburg, possibly contributing to its fiery destruction.

The German Army maintained its frontline over the winter of 1916-17, before withdrawing from the Somme battlefield in February 1917 to the fortified Hindenburg Line.

When the " Hindenburg Damm " was finished in the 1920s, the town lost its importance.

It determined that three Silesian towns: Gleiwitz, Hindenburg and Beuthen would remain in Germany, and the eastern part of Upper Silesia with its main town of Katowice ( Kattowitz ) would join restored Poland.

Fire-damaged Duralumin cross brace from the Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg | " Hindenburg " ( DLZ129 ) salvaged from its crash site at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey | NJ on May 6, 1937.

Despite a better-than-expected performance and a successful return flight to Canada in 1930, the R100 was broken up following the tragedy that befell its " sister " ship, the R101 ( which was designed and built by a team from the Government's Air Ministry ); the later crash of the Hindenburg led to the abandonment of airships as a mode of mass transport.

Although LZ 129 Hindenburg is most famous for its fiery end, for the 14 months of its existence, it carried considerable amounts of mail overseas, and many of those are readily available today.

" Immediately afterwards the Hindenburg is shown outside its hangar, and along with the opening credits the airship flies by before disappearing into the clouds.

As the Hindenburg makes its way to Lakehurst Air Field, events conspire against Ritter and Vogel.

" During an investigation of parallel events of those in Astonishing X-Mens Earth-616, the X-Society pursue Subject X, who causes the Hindenburg disaster and the X-Society are blamed for the deaths of its passengers.

The Hindenburg Line was built across a salient in the German front, so that by withdrawing to these fortifications the German army was shortening its front.

Cox ’ s idea was to raise the Hindenburg and use its twenty-six thousand ton hull as a floating platform from which to enable salvage of the other ships.

This was ultimately to prove impractical, as several attempts to lift the Hindenburg ended in failure, due to the hulk ’ s instability and the likelihood of its capsizing whilst being pumped out, as it was sitting on rock and not shingle as had been first supposed.

It was the first allied division to pierce the German Hindenburg Line of defense, and the 32nd then adopted its shoulder patch ; a line shot through with a red arrow, to signify its tenacity in piercing the enemy line.

Nonetheless, the cost to Germany of containing the Anglo-French attacks had been high, and given that the material preponderance of the Entente and its allies could only be expected to increase in 1917, Hindenburg and Ludendorff decided on a defensive strategy on the Western Front for that year.

Max Pruss ( 13 September 1891-28 November 1960 ) was the commander of the LZ 129 Hindenburg on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the zeppelin disaster.

On 3 October 1918, the 5th Brigade — of which the 18th Battalion was part — became engaged in its last battle of the First World War when breaching the Hindenburg Line close to Beaurevoir and Montbrehain.

He was reinstated later that year under the exemption for those who had worn the uniform of Germany or its allies in World War I, which had been insisted on by President Paul von Hindenburg before he signed the bill into law.

The Ober Ost was created in 1914, and its first leader was Paul von Hindenburg, a Prussian military hero.