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Biography
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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Awards & recognition
- honorary citizenship · 1934
- honorary citizen of Bonn · 1933
- honorary citizen of Paderborn · 1933
- honorary citizen of Speyer · 1933
- honorary citizenship · 1933
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- honorary citizen of Nuremberg · 1932
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Liberty · 1918
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Friedrich I · 1902
- Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
- Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa
- honorary citizen of Berlin
- honorary citizen of Coburg
- honorary citizen of Sankt Andreasberg
- honorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology
- honorary doctor of the University of Bonn
- honorary doctor of the University of Königsberg
- honorary doctor of the University of Wrocław
- honorary doctorate of the University of Graz
- Imtiyaz Medal
- Iron Cross 1st Class
- Iron Cross 2nd Class
- Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
- Large Military Merit Medal
- Military Merit Cross I. Class
- Military Order of Maria Theresa
- Military Order of Max Joseph
- Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
- Order of the Black Eagle
- Pour le Mérite
- Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
