<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg" id="mwjg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Paul von Hindenburg">Paul von Hindenburg</a> defeats <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Marx" id="mwjw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wilhelm Marx">Wilhelm Marx</a> in the second round of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_German_presidential_election" id="mwkA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1925 German presidential election">German presidential election</a> to become the first directly elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state" id="mwkQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Head of state">head of state</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" id="mwkg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a>.