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The Reich President leaving Berlin Cathedral with his son and aide-de-camp Oskar von Hindenburg, January 1931. After the war, he continued his career within the newly established German Reichswehr, where he was promoted to major and acted as his father's liaison officer.
The support of respected individuals such as von Papen and Hindenburg’s son, Oskar von Hindenburg, gave the Nazis further legitimacy for these actions. The Nazis immediately used the Enabling Law to remove civil rights.
The President’s son and adjutant, Oskar von Hindenburg, was opposed to the Nazis up to the last moment. The turning-point at which his views changed came at the end of January. At Papen’s suggestion, a meeting had been arranged between Hitler and Oskar von Hindenburg in the house of Ribbentrop.
Hindenburg was careful to marry an aristocrat--Gertrud von Sperling (1860–1921) while stationed at Strettin (1879). They had three children, a boy and two girls: Irmengard Pauline (1880) and Annemaria (1891) and one son, Oskar (1883).
Von Papen and Oskar von Hindenburg (President Hindenburg’s son) met secretly and backed Hitler to become chancellor. A group of important industrialists, including Hjalmar Schacht and Gustav Krupp, also wrote outlining their support of Hitler to President Hindenburg.
Hindenburg was the son of a Prussian officer of old Junker (aristocratic) stock. His mother, however, was from a middle-class family—a fact he preferred to ignore. A cadet at the age of 11, he served in the Austro-Prussian (Seven Weeks’) War of 1866 and in the Franco-German War of 1870–71.
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Generalleutnant Oskar von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was the politically powerful son and aide-de-camp to Field Marshal and President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Hindenburg followed his father into the German Army.
