Well, it made sense while I was typing it :) I think you're probably right because "socialist" had a different meaning in a post-Bismarck Germany. If we conside

Well, it made sense while I was typing it :) I think you're probably right because "socialist" had a different meaning in a post-Bismarck Germany. If we consider what Fabian Socialism meant in England maybe. Even then the makeup of the Fabians was much more literary and not at all military. That doesn't work, either. I'd have been better off identifying him as a Christian Democrat although that lacks something. He was one of the last of the Junkers Prussian caste to rule, and that really doesn't compare to much outside Germany and then only before WWII. Of what came after, I'd say the CDU is closest to what von Hindenburg stood for, although it's still a stretch.