Weeks after Hindenburg established this award, his death on 2 August 1934 led to his replacement as President by Adolf Hitler, who replaced the title of President with that of Führer (Leader). On 15 September 1935, the Nazi regime announced what became known as the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of German citizenship, and forbade certain interactions between Jews and Germans. That the Jewess Jeanette Mayer would have been awarded this Hindenburg Cross "in the name of the Führer" on 1 October 1935, over two weeks after Hitler had deprived her of German citizenship, had to have been one of the most ironic events of modern times.