President Von Hindenburg

by Rudolph Weterstetten

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THE BIOGRAPHY OF PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW TOSS BOSTON - CHICAGO . DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN CO., LIMITED LONDON - BOMBAY . CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OP CANADA, LIMITED PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG COPYRIGHT, 1930, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permis...moreTHE BIOGRAPHY OF PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW TOSS BOSTON - CHICAGO . DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN CO., LIMITED LONDON - BOMBAY . CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OP CANADA, LIMITED PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG COPYRIGHT, 1930, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. Set p and electrotyped. Published April, 1930. SET TIP BY BROWN BROTHERS LINOTYPEHS HUNTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY Ji p ILLUSTRATIONS President von Hindenburg frontispiece FACING PAGE President von Hindenburg as Major General and Chief of the General Staff of the Eighth Army Corps in 1897 at Coblentz 34 General von Hindenburg, candidate for the Reichsblock, re views a. demonstration of patriotic associations at his villa in Hanover 140 Field-Marshal von Hindenburg at the time of his nomination for the Presidency 154 Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, the Nationalist candidate for the German Presidential Election ....... 160 President von Hindenburg celebrates the Sixtieth Anniversary of his entrance into the German Army 172 President von Hindenburg and General Director Heineken of the Norddeutsche Lfoyd t pronouncing a Hock . . 196 President von Hindenburg returning home from a walk in Hanover at the time of his election 212 President von Hindenburg inspecting the Guard of Honour on his arrival at Leipzig Fair 226 In the garden of the Presidents Palace, Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin 250 President von Hindenburg about to celebrate his Sixtieth Mill tary Jubilee 274 THE BIOGRAPHY OF PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG THE BIOGRAPHY OF PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG CHAPTER ITOWARDS the end of the eighteenth century, King Fred erick William of Prussia was graciously pleased to sanction the union of the names and arms of the two old military families von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg. The Beneckendorffs had been famous soldiers for over seven cen turies the von Hindenburgs are first mentioned in history in the year 1208. The union of the two families in the eight eenth century was based on the marriage of Hans Joachim von Beneckendorff, a man of poor health, with Scholastica von Hindenburg, the daughter of a house, ancient and noble indeed, but threatened with extinction. Scholasticas only brother, Otto Friedrich von Hindenburg, a soldier, lived for twenty-five years without being called upon to face the real business of his profession. At the end of this time, he fought in the two Silesian wars, and had his leg shattered by a can non ball, so that he was obliged to retire in 1579. The King, at whose side he had fought, rewarded him with the gift of two estates, Limbsee and Neudeck. It seems possible that Otto Friedrich von Hindenburg may have called to his house his sisters son, Christoph Wilhelm von Benecken dorff. The latter left the Prussian army with the rank of 1(less)

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