Everything about Paul Von Hindenburg totally explained
Hindenburg himself was said to be a
monarchist who favored a restoration of the
German monarchy. Though he hoped one of the Prussian princes would be appointed to succeed him as
Head of State, he didn't attempt to use his powers in favour of such a restoration, as he considered himself bound by the oath he'd sworn on the
Weimar Constitution.
It has been alleged that Hindenburg’s will asked for Hitler to restore the monarchy. However, the truth of this story can't be established as Oskar von Hindenburg destroyed the portions of his father’s will relating to politics.
It has been argued that the political testament of Hindenburg’s will that was made public in 1934, in which Hindenburg expresses the greatest thanks for Hitler was forged by Oskar von Hindenburg as a way of ingratiating himself with Hitler.
Burial
Hindenburg was buried in the
Tannenberg memorial near Tannenberg, East Prussia (today: Stębark, Poland) against the wishes he'd expressed during his life. Hindenburg always said he wanted to be buried next to his beloved wife. In 1945, German troops removed his and his wife's coffins, to save them from the approaching Soviets, to
Marburg an der Lahn in western Germany (Hindenburg was an Honorary Citizen of this town). The caskets of Hindenburg and his wife were found in an abandoned salt mine on
27 April 1945 by U.S. Army Ordnance troops. Later that month, he and his wife were interred anew in the famous
Elisabeth Church in the North Tower Chapel.
He still rests there, although the church chapter recently voted to keep the lights switched off at his tomb.
Will Lang Jr., correspondent of
Life, wrote an article (
6 March,
1950) about how the United States Army Ordnance troops found the coffins. His tombstone simply states "Paul von Hindenburg 1847-1934".
Evaluation
Although he was widely esteemed in his time, his biographers
John Wheeler-Bennett and Andreas Dorpalen have argued that beneath Hindenburg's façade of strength and power was a weak-willed and not particularly intelligent man who, while well-meaning, was highly dependent upon the advice of others to make decisions.
In Wheeler-Bennett's phrase, Hindenburg was the "Wooden Titan"; a man who looked impressive on the outside but who was hollow and empty on the inside.
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