Von hindenburg biography

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a Germanfield marshal and statesman.

Hindenburg retired from the army in 1911. He rejoined the German army at the start of the First World War. He became famous when he won the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.

Hindenburg retired again in 1919, but returned to public life one more time in 1925 to be elected as the second President of Germany.

He was 84 years old and in poor health, but decided to run for re-election in 1932 as the only candidate who could defeat Adolf Hitler, because he saw him as a dangerous extremist. He tried to stop Hitler's and the Nazi Party's rise to power, but Franz von Papenpersuaded Hindenburg, that the Conservativeelite and the military could control Hitler when he becomes Chancellor of Germany and that the other more dangerous alternative was Communist rule.

As a result, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933