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Gertrud Wilhelmine von Sperling von Hindenburg

Birth
Germany
Death
14 May 1921 (aged 60)
Germany
Burial
Marburg, Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hessen, Germany GPS-Latitude: 50.8149513, Longitude: 8.7695575
Plot
next to her husband in the Nordkapelle
Memorial ID
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Daughter of Oskar von Sperling (1814-1872) and his wife Ehefrau Pauline von Sperling, nee von Klass.
Originally buried with her husband at the Tannenberg Memorial in KΓΆnigsberg (Prussia), Hitler had the remains brought to Germany as the Red Army approached in spring of 1945. Temporarily stored in a salt mine in Thuringia, the US army found the remains in summer of 1945 and in 1946 they were transferred to the Elisabethkirche in Marburg.
Daughter of Oskar von Sperling (1814-1872) and his wife Ehefrau Pauline von Sperling, nee von Klass.
Originally buried with her husband at the Tannenberg Memorial in KΓΆnigsberg (Prussia), Hitler had the remains brought to Germany as the Red Army approached in spring of 1945. Temporarily stored in a salt mine in Thuringia, the US army found the remains in summer of 1945 and in 1946 they were transferred to the Elisabethkirche in Marburg.


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