Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the week President von Hindenburg continued his desultory search for a new Chancellor (TIME, Dec. 14). Although the Luther cabinet has officially resigned, it continues to function according to German custom until a new Chancellor is appointed. Thus the government of the Deutsches Reich went on exactly as before...
President von Hindenburg was universally expected to ask Dr, Luther to form the new Cabinet, with the foregone conclusion that he would ask Herr Stresemann to return as Foreign Minister. According to custom the members of a German Cabinet that has resigned continue to exercise their respective powers until their successors are appointed. There is thus no need for immediate action on the part of President von Hindenburg. Well informed observers opined that New Year's Day might come and go before the new Cabinet is created...
...conclusion, the Chancellor reiterated his solemn promise (TIME, Nov. 26) that the Cabinet would resign as soon as the Locarno Pacts should be signed at London, in order that President von Hindenburg may secure the formation of a new and, it is hoped, a stronger Government than the present one. It was only by making this promise that Dr. Luther secured the Socialists' votes for the Treaties. They of course hope to be well represented in the new Cabinet...
...Once I divided honor and glory with Field Marshal von Hindenburg and-I dare proclaim it all aloud- heightened his glory. Today my German heart aches when I see how the Field Marshal is sacrificing that glory, and it is sacrificed indeed if his name stands under the embodiment of shame and dishonor [the Locarno treaty]. Better to surrender one's position than glory, honor and one's own great past. That is the German way, and even more German would it appear for the Field Marshal to have given battle against this treaty of dishonor and enslavement...
Later, eight of the Baron's war comrades bore the coffin to the famed Invaliden Cemetery, while German aces who had fought with him during the War soared above the funeral procession and dropped flowers and wreaths.* President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther and War Minister Gessler solemnly accompanied the aging mother of Baron von Richthofen to his new grave. And there were present scores of generals from all parts of Germany, as well as a company of the Baron's Uhlan regiment, which fired a last salute over his grave...