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Noun: Paul von Hindenburg
  1. German field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934)
    - Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg

Type of: field marshal, full general, general, national leader, statesman, statesperson

Encyclopedia: Paul von Hindenburg