Paul von Hindenburg

Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany (1847–1934)

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Lived 1847–1934, aged 87Germany

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1847–1934
Aged 87

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Updated 2026-05-29

German military commander who shaped WWI strategy, then as president in the 1920s-30s, made the fateful call to appoint Hitler as Chancellor—a decision that haunted his final years.

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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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