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Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg Hindenburg was originally buried in the central yard or "plaza" of the monument on 7 August 1934. 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 ...
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was born in Posen, Prussia, the son of Prussian junker Hans Robert Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1816–1902) and his wife Luise Schwickart (1825–1893), [1] the daughter of physician Karl Ludwig Schwickart and wife Julie Moennich.
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg: August 6–7, 1934 Nazi Germany: Tannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen: 200,000 [19] (via radio, not television) at least 1,000,000 [20] State funeral of Józef Piłsudski: May 18, 1935 Poland: Kraków: up to 250,000 [21] [22] Funeral of Huey Long: September 12, 1935 United States: Baton Rouge ~200,000 [23]
The body of Paul von Hindenburg was brought to the Tannenberg Memorial. The road for the funeral procession was lined with mourners bearing torches. [10] Born: Billy Boston, rugby league footballer, in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales
When Paul von Hindenburg died in 1935, the Tannenberg Memorial was then used as his mausoleum, commemorating elite military leadership during the war. [262] The Nazi government attempted to have the Jewish names removed from the war memorials, but this proved impractical and instead a law was passed forbidding their addition to any future ...
Cultural depictions of Paul von Hindenburg (16 P) H. LZ 129 Hindenburg (23 P) Hundred Days Offensive (1 C, 5 P) M. ... Tannenberg Memorial This page was last ...
Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, great-grandson of Otto Gottfried, spent the summers at Neudeck as a child. His parents family moved into the manor house in 1863. In 1926 the estate, held by Paul's cousin Lina, had gone into debt and was in need of major investment.
1998 photo of the foundations of the Tannenberg Memorial – the former burial site of Paul von Hindenburg. To David Stevenson it was "a major victory but far from decisive", [58] because the Russian First Army was still in East Prussia.