Hermann Göring
Nazi leader and convicted war criminal
He became a decorated World War I fighter pilot and later a leading Nazi official.[1][2] On 12 January 1893, at the Marienbad Sanatorium in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Hermann Wilhelm Göring was born.[3]
Quick Facts
- Order
- 16th
- Took office
- 30 August 1932
- Left office
- 23 April 1945
- President
- Paul von Hindenburg (1932–1934)
- Predecessor
- Paul Löbe
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Göring was the fourth of five children from his father's second marriage.[4] Göring joined the Prussian Army in 1912 and served in an infantry regiment.[5][3] During World War I, he transferred to the air service and became a pilot, eventually commanding Jagdgeschwader 1.[3][6] After the war, he worked as a barnstormer and for a Swedish airline.[3]
He married actress Emmy Sonnemann in 1935, with Hitler as best man.[3][7] Heinrich Ernst Göring, his father, served as the initial governor-general of German South West Africa.[8] By the war's end, he had achieved 22 victories and was awarded the Pour le Mérite in May 1918.[1]
What the cited sources add
Göring sold a violin to pay for his train ticket home from boarding school.[3] An investigation conducted after the war into Allied loss records revealed that just two of the victories credited to Göring were questionable.[1] Hermann Dahlmann stated that Göring had Loerzer work to secure the Pour le Mérite for him.[1] After assaulting a nurse, Göring was declared a dangerous drug addict and was admitted to Långbro Asylum on 1 September 1925.[6]
His violence necessitated the use of a straitjacket, yet the psychiatrist evaluating him deemed him sane.[6] For roughly fifteen years, Göring's mother was the mistress of Epenstein.[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21; Franks Bailey Guest 1993, p. 95, 117, 156; Franks Bailey Guest 1993, p. 95, 117, 156 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21; Miller 2006, p. 426; Kershaw 2008, p. 284; Miller Schulz 2015, p. 29, 41; Lepage 2016, p. 140 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Overy 2012, p. 5 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Overy 2012, p. 5; Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21; Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21; Gunther 1940, p. 63; Manvell Fraenkel 2011, p. 21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hermann Göring" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Block Trow 1971, p. 327–330 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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