 It came to light that the Hindenburg family's highly indebted estate in East Prussia at Neudeck (owned by the president's brother) had been clandestinely bought in 1927 by a number of industrialists and given to the president as a gift, seemingly in exchange for political influence.The agrarian lobbyists were enraged that the government had not tried to cover up the scandal.Since some of the Reich President's close friends and fellow landowners were implicated, the ire directed at the Chancellor could be transmitted directly through the former.