Hindenburg

Hindenburg is a German name, used for people and places. The word may refer to:

People

• Carl Hindenburg (1741–1808), mathematician
• Gertrud von Hindenburg (1860–1921), German noblewoman and wife of Paul von Hindenburg
• Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), German general in World War I and president of Germany (1925–1934)
• Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960), German officer, Paul von Hindenburg's son
• Hindemburg Melão Jr. (1972), Brazilian blindfold chess player

Places

• Hindenburg, a village in the municipality of Templin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Hindenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, a village in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Hindenburg O.S. (Hindenburg in Oberschlesien), former name of a city in Upper Silesia. Today Zabrze, Poland
• Hindenburg (also Gross Friedrichsgraben), former district of Königsberg, East Prussia. Today Polessk, Kaliningrad, Russia
• Hindenburg Bridge, former railway bridge over the Rhine river destroyed in World War II
• Hindenburgdamm, rail causeway linking northern Germany to the island of Sylt
• Hindenburg Kaserne, former military base near Würzburg, Franconia, Germany
• Hindenburg Line, German defensive line on the Western front during World War I
• Hindenburg-Oberrealschule, former school in Königsberg, Germany
• Hindenburg Range, mountain range in Papua New Guinea

Media and entertainment

• The Hindenburg (film), the 1975 movie based on the Hindenburg disaster
• Hindenburg: The Untold Story, a 2007 television docudrama based on the Hindenburg disaster

Vessels

• LZ 129 Hindenburg, airship
  • Hindenburg-class airships
  • Hindenburg disaster
  • Hindenberg disaster newsreel footage
• Hindenburg (icebreaker), an icebreaker sunk by a mine on 12 March 1918
• SMS Hindenburg, battlecruiser built for the Imperial German Navy in 1917
• SS Columbus, a German liner originally named SS Hindenburg

Other uses

• Hindenburg Cup, a German aviation prize established in 1928
• Hindenburg light, form of lighting used in the trenches during World War I
• Hindenburg Omen, a proposed term in technical analysis of stock prices
• Hindenburg Programme, a German armament program during World War I