Hindenburg Cup

• 1928 : Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen, for his flight from Berlin to Tehran
• 1929 : Wolf Hirth, for various European flights and his flight to Iceland
• 1930 Powered flight : Henry Schlerf, for volunteer training activities
• 1930 Gliding : Robert Kronfeld, for his achievements at the 10th Rhön competition
• 1931 Powered flight : August Lauw, for his flight from Wilhelmshaven to Alexandria
• 1931 Gliding : Günther Groenhoff, for his success with the high-performance glider Fafnir
• 1932 Powered flight : Elly Beinhorn, for her flights from Germany to Africa in 1931 and to Australia in 1932
• 1932 Gliding : Wolf Hirth, for his achievements in research and thermal flight
• 1933 Powered flight : Charles Schwabe, for his flight from Böblingen to Cape Town
• 1933 Gliding : Peter Riedel, for his "great flying performance" and observations of thermal updrafts
• 1934 Powered flight : No trophy awarded
• 1934 Gliding : Heini Dittmar, 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).

• List of aviation awards

• Anders, Karl; Eichelbaum, Hans (1937). Wörterbuch des Flugwesens [Dictionary of Aviation] (in German). Leipzig: Quelle und Meyer.
• Supf, Peter (1935). Das Buch der deutschen Fluggeschichte [The Book of German Aviation History] (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin-Grunewald: Klemm.
• Brütting, Peter (1979). Das Buch der deutschen Fluggeschichte [The Book of German Aviation History] (in German). Vol. 3. Stuttgart: Drei-Brunnen-Verlag. ISBN 3-87174-001-2.