The Hindenburg Cup (german: Hindenburg-Pokal) was a German aviation prize, founded in 1928 and awarded annually by

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and

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Paul von Hindenburg Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (; abbreviated ; 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany fro ...

to recognize achievements in powered flight. From 1930 an additional prize was also awarded for

gliding Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word ''soaring'' is al ...

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* 1928 :

Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen Friedrich Karl Richard Paul August Freiherr Koenig von und zu Warthausen (2 April 1906 – 15 December 1986) was a German aviator who made the first solo flight around the world in 1928–1929. His flight took him eastwards from Berlin to Moscow ...

, for his flight from

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* 1929 :

Wolf Hirth Wolfram Kurt Erhard Hirth (28 February 1900 – 25 July 1959) was a German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer. He was a co-founder of Schempp-Hirth, still a renowned glider manufacturer.Segelflugbildkalendar 2011 Hirth was born in Stuttgart, ...

, for various European flights and his flight to

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* 1930 Powered flight : Henry Schlerf, for volunteer training activities * 1930 Gliding :

Robert Kronfeld Squadron Leader Robert Kronfeld, AFC (5 May 1904 – 12 February 1948) was an Austrian-born gliding champion and sailplane designer of the 1920s and 30s. He became a British subject and an RAF test pilot. He was killed testing a glider in 1948. ...

, for his achievements at the 10th Rhön competition * 1931 Powered flight : August Lauw, for his flight from

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* 1931 Gliding :

Günther Groenhoff Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter Ginter is a both a given name and surname of German origin,https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=ginter derived from the name Günther. Notable people ...

, for his success with the high-performance glider ''Fafnir'' * 1932 Powered flight :

Elly Beinhorn Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot. Life Early life She was born in Hannover, Germany on 30 May 1907. In 1928, she attended a lecture by famed aviator Hermann Köhl, who had recently completed a historic E ...

, for her flights from Germany to Africa in 1931 and to Australia in 1932 * 1932 Gliding :

, for his achievements in research and

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flight * 1933 Powered flight :

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, for his flight from

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* 1933 Gliding :

Peter Riedel Peter Riedel (August 1905 – November 6, 1998) was a German gliding champion, and was Air Attaché for the Nazism, Nazi government in Washington, D.C., before and during World War II. Between 1977 and 1985 he published the definitive history ...

, for his "great flying performance" and observations of thermal updrafts * 1934 Powered flight : No trophy awarded * 1934 Gliding :

Heini Dittmar Heini Dittmar (Born March 30, 1912, Bad Kissingen, Unterfranken, Germany – Died April 28, 1960 near Mülheim an der Ruhr, West Germany) was a record-breaking German glider pilot. Inspired by the example of his glider flying brother Edgar, Dit ...

, for setting altitude and long-distance records After the death of Hindenburg in 1934 the Hindenburg Cup was renamed the Adolf Hitler Prize (''Adolf-Hitler-Preis'').

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* * * {{cite book , last1=Brütting , first1=Peter , title= Das Buch der deutschen Fluggeschichte , trans-title=The Book of German Aviation History , volume=3 , date=1979 , publisher= Drei-Brunnen-Verlag , location=Stuttgart , language=German , isbn= 3-87174-001-2 Aviation awards Paul von Hindenburg

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