![]() ![]() ![]() Rising in the ranks because of great bravery, he became his regiment's elected representative at the Palace of Versailles when the German Empire was proclaimed on 18 January 1871. Hindenburg became a second lieutenant in the Third Regiment of Foot Guards of the Prussian Army and fought in both the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian War. His family, deeply protestant, was directly related to 16th century church reformer Martin Luther and remotely related to the ruling house of Waldeck-Pyrmont.Īlready at age 11, Hindenburg entered the Cadet Corps School at Wahlstatt in Silesia, later being transferred to Berlin, and at 18 he served as a page to the widow of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was born in Posen, Prussia, the son of Prussian aristocrat Hans Robert Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg and his wife Luise Schwickart, the daughter of a physician. 1.6 The Facade of the Ludendorff Dictatorship.
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