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Hindenburg: The Man and the Legend
Hindenburg: The Man and the Legend
Hindenburg: The Man and the Legend
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1930 biography of Prussian World War I General and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, who went on to become President of the Weimar Republic, written by journalist husband-and-wife team Margaret Goldsmith and Frederick Voigt.

Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) was a German military officer, statesman, and politician who largely controlled German policy in the second half of World War I and served as the elected President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. He played the key role in the Nazi “Seizure of Power” in January 1933 by appointing Adolf Hitler chancellor of a “Government of National Concentration.”

Hindenburg first came to national attention during World War I at the age of 66 as the victor of the decisive Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914. As Germany’s Chief of the General Staff from August 1916, Hindenburg’s reputation rose greatly in German public esteem. He and his deputy Erich Ludendorff then led Germany in a de facto military dictatorship throughout the remainder of the war, marginalizing German Emperor Wilhelm II as well as the German Reichstag.

Hindenburg was elected the second President of Germany in 1925 and, considered the only candidate who could defeat Hitler, ran for re-election in 1932. He became a major player in the increasing political instability in the Weimar Republic that ended with Hitler’s rise to power, dissolved the Reichstag twice in 1932, and, finally, under pressure, agreed to appoint Hitler Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. In March he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, which gave Hitler’s regime arbitrary powers. Hindenburg died the following year, after which Hitler declared the office of President vacant and made himself head of state.
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Release dateJan 12, 2017
ISBN9781787209305
Hindenburg: The Man and the Legend
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Margaret L. Goldsmith

Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1894-1971) was an American journalist, historical novelist and translator who lived and worked primarily in England. One of her best known translations is popular German writer Erich Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives for the first UK edition in 1931. Goldsmith spent some of her childhood in Germany, where she attended school and learned to speak German fluently. She then studied at Illinois Woman’s College in Jacksonville, Illinois and gained an MA from the University of Illinois. During World War I she was on the staff of the war trade board under Bernard Baruch. She then worked for the national chamber of commerce in Washington and the international chamber of commerce in Paris, helping Wesley Clair Mitchell with his 1919 report on international price comparisons. Returning to Berlin as a research assistant in the office of the commercial attaché of the American Embassy, she became one of the first women to be appointed an assistant trade commissioner from 1923-1925. In 1926 she married Frederick Voigt, the Manchester Guardian’s diplomatic correspondent in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930, although the couple divorced in 1935. While living in Berlin she worked as an agent representing English-speaking authors. She was a friend of author Katharine Burdekin (pseudonym Murray Constantine), with whom she co-authored the historical novel based on Marie-Antoinette, Venus in Scorpio: A Romance in Versailles, 1770-1793 (1940). Goldsmith’s other novels were Karin’s Mother (1928); Belated Adventure (1929); and the German language novel Patience geht Vorüber: ein Roman (1931). Her non-fiction publications included Frederick the Great (1929); Hindenburg: The Man and the Legend (with Frederick Voigt, 1930); (1933); Franz Anton Mesmer: The History of an Idea (1934); John the Baptist: A Modern Interpretation (1935); and Florence Nightingale: The Woman and the Legend (1937). Goldsmith died in 1971.

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