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Paul von Hindenburg

Geburtstag: 2. Oktober 1847
Todesdatum: 2. August 1934

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg war ein deutscher Generalfeldmarschall und Politiker. Im Ersten Weltkrieg übte die von ihm geführte Oberste Heeresleitung von 1916 bis 1918 quasi diktatorisch die Regierungsgewalt aus. Hindenburg wurde 1925 zum zweiten Reichspräsidenten der Weimarer Republik gewählt. 1932 wurde er wiedergewählt. Am 30. Januar 1933 ernannte er Adolf Hitler zum Reichskanzler.

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„Der Krieg bekommt mir wie eine Badekur.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
»Geflügelte Worte«, Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1981, S. 601

Über Krieg

„„Notfalls kann ich immer noch als Oberbefehlshaber eingreifen.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
Ende Mai 1934 zum niederländischen Botschafter Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum über die Machtansprüche der Nationalsozialisten, zitiert nach Fritz Günther von Tschirschky: Erinnerungen eines Hochverräters, 1972, S. 240.

„Wer das gesehen hat, wird immer dran denken... aber das ist nun Mal so in einem Krieg... jeder Krieg ist eine furchtbare Sache.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
über die Schlacht bei Königgrätz 1866 zitiert nach Hans-Otto Meissner: Junge Jahre im Reichspräsidentenpalais, 1988, S. 235

Über Ehe

„Als Mensch habe ich gedacht, gehandelt und geirrt. Maßgebend in meinem Leben und Tun war für mich nicht der Beifall der Welt, sondern die eigene Überzeugung, die Pflicht und das Gewissen.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
zitiert nach Gustav Stresemann: "Vermächnis", Ullstein 1932, Seite 473

Über Leben, Über Menschen, Über die Welt

„Benzin verdirbt den Charakter“

— Paul von Hindenburg
zitiert nach Hans-Otto Meissner: Junge Jahre im Reichspräsidentenpalais, 1988, S. 235

„Prosperity can come through peace alone.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
Context: Prosperity can come through peace alone. The German people are in favor of all possible means to make war impossible. I have seen three wars. A man who has seen three wars never will wish another war. He must be a friend of peace. But I am not a pacifist. All my impressions of war are so bad that I could be for it only under the sternest necessity — the necessity of fighting Bolshevism or of defending one's country.

„In the middle of August I did not consider that the time had come for us to despair of a successful conclusion of the war. In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out. I fully realised what the homeland had already borne in the way of sacrifices and privations and what they would possibly still have to bear.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
As quoted in The Great War: Sources and Evidence (1995) by David Stewart, James Fitzgerald and Alf Pickard, p. 269

„I was never able to understand how it was that here and there the welfare of the Fatherland had to be sacrificed to mere petty party interests, and from the point of view of political conviction felt myself most at home in the shade of that tree which was firmly rooted in the ethico-political soil of the epoch of our great and venerable Emperor. That epoch, with what I regarded as its wonderful glories, seemed to have become part of me, and I adhered firmly to its ideals and principles. The course of events in the present war have hardly been of a kind to make me particularly enthusiastic about the developments of later times. A powerful, self-contained State in Bismarck's sense was the world in which I preferred my thoughts to move. Discipline and hard work within the Fatherland seemed to me better than cosmopolitan imaginings. Moreover, I fail to see that any citizen has rights on whom equal duties are not imposed.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
Out of My Life (London: Cassell, 1920), pp. 236-237.

„All we know is that, sometimes, in our battles with the Russians, we had to remove the mounds of enemy corpses from before our trenches, in order to get a clear field of fire against fresh assaulting waves.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War (2013) by Peter Hart, p. 242

„I have always been a Monarchist. In sentiment I still am. Now it is too late for me to change. But it is not for me to say that the new way is not the better way, the right way. So it may prove to be.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
As quoted in TIME magazine (13 January 1930)

„In the Great War ledger, the page on which the Russian losses were written has been torn out. No one knows the figure. Five or eight Million?“

— Paul von Hindenburg
As quoted in With Snow on Their Boots : The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I (1999) by Jamie H. Cockfield, p. 28

„Recently, a whole series of cases has been reported to me in which judges, lawyers, and officials of the Judiciary who are disabled war veterans and whose record in office is flawless, have been forcibly sent on leave, and are later to be dismissed for the sole reason that they are of Jewish descent.
It is quite intolerable for me personally…that Jewish officials who were disabled in the war should suffer such treatment, [especially] as, with the express approval of the government, I addressed a Proclamation to the German people on the day of the national uprising, March 21st, in which I bowed in reverence before the dead of the war and remembered in gratitude the bereaved families of the war dead, the disabled, and my old comrades at the front.
I am certain, Mr. Chancellor, that you share this human feeling, and request you, most cordially and urgently, to look into this matter yourself, and to see to it that there is some uniform arrangement for all branches of the public service in Germany.
As far as my own feelings are concerned, officials, judges, teachers and lawyers who are war invalids, fought at the front, are sons of war dead, or themselves lost sons in the war should remain in their positions unless an individual case gives reason for different treatment. If they were worthy of fighting for Germany and bleeding for Germany, then they must also be considered worthy of continuing to serve the Fatherland in their professions.“

— Paul von Hindenburg
Letter to Chancellor Adolf Hitler http://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/hindenburg-and-hitler-on-jewish-war-veterans/, (April 4th 1933).

„Interview of 1929, as quoted in "Nations are greatly concerned over death of German President" in Berkeley Daily Gazette (1 August 1934)“

— Paul von Hindenburg
Variant translation: I am not a pacifist. That is not my attitude. But all my impressions of war are so bad that I could be for it only under the sternest necessity — the necessity of fighting Bolshevism or of defending one's country. As quoted in TIME magazine (13 January 1930)

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