Carin Goering

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The coat of arms of the Goering family (left) and the coat of arms of the von Fock family (right) on the head of a letter from Hermann Goering to his mother-in-law, January 1926
The coat of arms of the von Fock family in combination with the coat of arms of the Göring family
Shrine for Carin Göring in Hermann Göring's apartment on Kaiserdamm in Berlin, a swastika on the carpet , 1931

Carin Göring (born October 21, 1888 in Stockholm ; † October 17, 1931 ibid) was Hermann Göring's first wife .

Life

Carin Göring, nee Freiin von Fock , divorced Baroness von Kantzow , was born in Stockholm in 1888 as the daughter of Colonel and Regimental Commander Baron Carl Alexander von Fock and his Irish wife Huldine Beamish. The von Fock family emigrated from Westphalia to Sweden in the 19th century . Carin had four sisters: Mary, Lily, Elsa and Fanny . In 1910 Carin von Fock married the professional officer Niels Gustav Freiherr von Kantzow ; Thomas, the only child of the two, was born in 1912 († 1973).

In February 1920 Carin von Kantzow stayed with her sister Mary von Rosen at Rockelstad Castle . There she met Hermann Göring , a highly decorated fighter pilot from the First World War , who at the time was chief pilot at Svenska Lufttrafik and also operated an air taxi with which he had flown Carin's brother-in-law Eric von Rosen to Rockelstad Castle in February 1920. Carin von Kantzow and Göring, who was four years younger than him, fell in love and just a few months later they traveled to Munich , where Carin Göring's mother was introduced. Franziska Göring criticized her son for his adultery and asked him to end the relationship. She had been in a love triangle with her husband and a lover for years .

The love affair between Carin von Kantzow and Göring lasted; in December 1922 Carin was divorced from her husband and married Göring the following month (January 3, 1923). Her son Thomas von Kantzow stayed behind in Sweden. With financial help from Carin's former husband, the Görings moved into a small villa in a suburb of Munich, located in the countryside, as Carin Göring suffered from angina pectoris , asthma and rheumatism , which did not allow her to stay longer in the city. To protect his former wife, Niels von Kantzow even paid for a car and a chauffeur.

Soon after, Göring met Adolf Hitler and the Göring couple's commitment to Hitler and the NSDAP began - even after the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch of 1923, which led to a ban on the NSDAP. Carin Göring raved about Hitler as a “genius full of love for the truth” and described him as “chivalrous” and as the only one in whom she placed all hope.

Hermann Göring was seriously injured in the Hitler putsch and received morphine in an Austrian hospital . This resulted in a morphine addiction , which was to accompany him until the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals in 1945.

Since the Goering in Germany warrant were sought, they settled in Sweden. There Hermann Göring took several withdrawal treatments at the expense of his father-in-law, was discharged as cured in autumn 1925, but soon relapsed again.

From 1928, when Göring became the top candidate of the NSDAP , the Görings were on the up again. Carin came to Berlin from Sweden to see her husband's new triumphs. From then on they led an exciting social life. Since she was now seriously ill, it soon became too strenuous for her. In the summer of 1931 the Görings traveled to Sweden, where Carin's mother died unexpectedly on September 25th. Carin Göring did not recover from this shock and died a few weeks later on October 17, 1931 of tuberculosis . She was first buried in Sweden. After her grave was allegedly desecrated there, Hermann Göring erected a mausoleum near his country home in Carinhall . Her sister Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff wrote a panegyric obituary for her. This obituary had sold 733,000 times by 1943. Göring named his yachts after her, the smaller Carin was followed by the luxury yacht Carin II in 1937 .

At the end of April 1945, Göring had Carinhall and its mausoleum blown up in order to prevent it being taken over by the advancing Red Army ; Carin's body had previously been buried in the nearby forest. In 1951 a corpse was found there that was mistaken for Carin Göring's. She was cremated and buried in the original grave in Sweden. In 1991, however, treasure hunters came across a coffin containing human remains; these were brought to Sweden for examination. In 2012 the body parts, u. a. with the help of a DNA analysis , identified as originating from Carin Göring.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linda Koffmar: Carin Göring's remains identified by researchers at Uppsala University . In: Uppsala Universitet . December 21, 2012. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  2. ^ Anna Kjellström, Hanna Edlund, Maria Lembring, Viktoria Ahlgren, Marie Allen, Lyle Konigsberg: An Analysis of the Alleged Skeletal Remains of Carin Göring. In: PLoS ONE. 7, 2012, p. E44366, doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0044366 .
personal data
SURNAME Goering, Carin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fock, Baron Carin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Herrmann Göring
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1931
Place of death Stockholm